Pronunciation of "Cui"

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Kim Braithwaite wrote:

> Oops. The Russian composer Cui (of French and Lithuanian extraction)
> was a member of "Les Cinq." According to Wikipedia, that appellation
> later inspired a French group to be dubbed "Les Six." Sorry.

OK, evidently it's not Chinese at all, but French adopted into Russian.

At least you can see how a Chinese speaker might've been misled by the 
Roman spelling...

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Paul B. Gallagher
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"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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