[Ads-l] Kremlinology antedate

Bill Mullins amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Thu Jun 24 04:18:23 UTC 2021


Mark has a good eye.  I miscopied the name in my post and it should have been
“Khrushchev”.

> On Jun 23, 2021, at 8:30 AM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM<http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/ads-l>> wrote:
>
> I've never seen the spelling "Kruschev", though it reflects the American
> colloquial pronunciation of the name. I've only ever seen "Khrushchev", an
> accurate transliteration of "Хрущёв" (except for the two dots over the "е",
> which make it ['ʲɔ] instead of ['ʲɛ]).
>
> Mark Mandel
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 12:58 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com<http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/ads-l>> wrote:
>
>> OED has 1958
>>
>> 1953 _New Leader_ Dec. 21 11/2
>> Specialists in Kremlinology will remember Malenkov's sharp criticism, at
>> the Nineteenth Party Congress a year ago, of the views then held by
>> *Kruschev*, and will perhaps deduce the existence of an antagonism
>> between the Premiere and his comrade-in-arms which may be the beginning of
>> another round in the battle for political supremacy.



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