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Why is щ transliterated as "shch"?
The щч pronunciation of щ is noted as the Old St. Petersburg pronunciation - which is not the same thing as saying that you will hear it on the streets of SPB today. The Wiki article on the difference ...
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Pronunciation of 'Сегодня'
For the purposes of completeness, and as no-one has explained why -его/-ого has the "v" pronunciation in the first place, it can be pointed out that the spelling reflects Church Slavonic ...
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pronunciation of костьми
Voicing occurs only before voiced obstruent consonants (б, г, д, ж, з). It does not occur before sonorants (л, м, н, р). (It also does not occur before в, unless it is followed by an obstruent ...
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pronunciation of костьми
Is the м a less likely candidate for medial retroactive voicing?
Is it ever? I don't think so. Смог, этот мяч, астма... no voicing.
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Where does the sound "йи" / iotated и / [ji] occur in Russian?
This is an old thread, but the iotated pronunciation of им is, I believe, a feature of the старомосковское произношение that was once favoured in films and on the stage. This is now quite dated, ...
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