Pronunciation of "Cui"

[Olga Zaslavsky]

The best way to think of pronouncing the u would be a French u, as Françoise has pointed out, or a German ü (u umlaut).  So, this composer's name would be pronounced as Küee.

Olga Zaslavsky, PhD

> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:02:26 -0400
> From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pronunciation of "Cui"
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:51:39 -0400
>   Klawa Thresher <kthresher at RANDOLPHCOLLEGE.EDU> wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> > 
> > A musician has asked me how to pronounce this composer's name - and
> > specifically if the "C" is soft or hard.  He says that in Chinese 
> >the
> > name is pronounced as "Sway."   
> 
> But that doesn't make much sense if his Russian name is Kjui
> K-JU-I, sort of like Q-E as in QE II in English.
> If that name is French, as I've heard it, then it might pronounced
> à la française, which I can't begin to transliterate -- but such names
> acquire an Russian pronunciation anyway.
> 
> Or is the Russian name really something else??
> -FR
> 
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