taking poll on pronunciation

[Hugh McLean]

I think Zvonreva is partly to blame for transliterating her name that 
way.  Non speakers of Russian couldn't possibly get it right.Why doesn't 
she call herself Zvonaryova? Then she could join SharapOva!
> If it were that simple Zvonarëva would be pronounced correctly, but it 
> isn't.
>
> I could offer a few of more names for a stress test (so to speak): 
> Shaposhnikova, Tartakovskaya, Slutskaya, Myskina, all usually 
> mispronounced.
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> On Jul 1, 2010, at 8:52 AM, John Dunn wrote:
>
>> , just as the pattern CasaNOva is probably responsible for stress 
>> assignments of the SharaPOva type.
>
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