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[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

>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?
>

Is it that complicated? I just imagined German was the first foreign
language for everyone in Russia and people little cared how English
words were actually pronounced. I remember of Lenin having had
difficulties in listening to English when he first landed on England
as he had apparently thought English was similarly spoken as German.
  Whenever I explain English spelling, I pronounce alphabets in German,
which is usually better understood. (The "J" is dzhee in fact, but Jot
is understood). "C" is invariably "tseh".

Cheers,
Tsuji

ytsuji at online.ru

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