the good old days, and that pesky letter "shee" (formerly "shch")

[Francoise Rosset]

Not being a Russian native, I checked with our Fulbright exchange 
language assistant.

She said that sh-ch is primarily a convenient (and old-fashioned) 
transliteration for the Roman alphabet, and confirmed that as a 
sound/phoneme it is a soft sh'
She also confirmed what Blake Galbreath said, that in reading out the 
letter it is called "sh'a."

When I asked her if there might be a regional variant she wasn't sure 
but suggested that the standard, expected pronunciation is definitely 
sh'

I find it a tad hard to believe that one would be noticing the 
pronunciation of this rather rare letter while one watches films or 
videos ...
-FR
-- 

Francoise Rosset
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Coordinator, German and Russian
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766

phone:  	(508) 286-3696
fax #:    	(508) 286-3640
e-mail: FRosset at wheatonma.edu

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