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[Victor Steinbok]

Many Russians feel the same way about Czech, especially Czech
names--where do the vowels go?

     VS-)

On 3/5/2014 1:13 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Which is why in my graduates school days I gave up trying to learn
> Russian -- I couldn't pronounce it.  (This actually was one locution
> the instructor assigned the class during its first week.  Was he
> using it as an intentional weeding out "shibboleth"?)
>
> Joel

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