Pushkin pronunciation question??

[Curtis Ford]

www.gramma.ru touches on this question with a bit of humor - you can
find their comments at

http://subscribe.ru/archive/job.education.likbez/200401/18175508.html

-Curt Ford
University of South Carolina


> Date:    Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:38:55 -0400
> From:    pjs <pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU>
> Subject: Pushkin pronunciation question??
>
> 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?
>
> Peter Scotto
> Mount Holyoke College

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