Timeline for Why is щ transliterated as "shch"?
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| Sep 22 at 12:48 | comment | added | pompey1969 | Kerensky probably uses the pre-revolutionary upper class pronunciation, but was not from St Petersburg himself - he (like Lenin - who his father taught, I think) was from Simbirsk (=Ulyanovsk) in the Volga Region. | |
| Sep 22 at 4:20 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | One example would be Aleksandr Kerensky, head of the Provisional Government in 1917, who lived until 1970. There are some speeches and interviews with him on YouTube where he uses the old pronunciation. For example in this 1949 speech at youtube.com/watch?v=IEcjRfer1oI&t=44s at 0:47, where he pronounces возвращаться, and many other times (although a few seconds later at 0:56 he does seem to say еще with a more modern pronunciation). | |
| Sep 13 at 10:08 | history | answered | pompey1969 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |