textbook recommendation

Dave Brokaw cinkhars at QUEENCITY.COM
Fri Aug 18 20:35:33 UTC 2000


Can someone tell me why in English the two "c's" in Cincinnati are
pronounced as "s's," but in Russian and Ukrainian, as far as I have seen,
the two "c's" are translated as "ts's"?

Was the name of the Roman general after whom Cincinnati is named pronounced
Tsintsinnatus in Latin?

Just curious.

David Brokaw
Office Manager
Cincinnati(or Tsintsinnati)-Kharkiv Sister City Project

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