Pushkin pronunciation question??

[Steve Marder]

> For my third-year Russian class, I am having my students memorise poetry
> (a la Brodsky). To make it easier of them, I had a native speaker record
> four Pushkin poems they have to memorise. She is an educated speaker with
> some of the most beautiful spoken Russian I have ever heard.
>
> The question concerns the pronunciation of "beznadezhno" which she
> consistently reads as "beznad'Ozhno",
>
> This certainly MUST be a mistake for "Ia vas liubil" where Pushkin rhymes
> it with "nezhno", and for  "K***" where he again rhymes it with "nezhnyi"
> and it is picked up again by "miatezhnyi".
>
> Comments?

Your native speaker is "hyper-correct": For Pushkin's time, "beznadezhnyy,"
"beznadezhno" (NOT "beznadyozhnyy," "beznadyozhno") are correct.

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