On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:24:24 -0700, "Matt Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello list~ >I have just acquired a specimen of Zhovtnevyi that has a Russian >specimen card and is labeled "I358". >I do not have a Russian font, but the first two lines of the card read: >"Aka?emhR Hayk CCCP" >"KOMHTET NO METEOPHTAM" (an approximation with my anglo keyboard). Well, the CCCP is obviously USSR (or, spelled in the Latin alphabet, Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik). I'm pretty sure that "Aka?emhR" would be "academy", and "komhtet", "comet" and "meteophtam", "meteorite". (I tried to teach myself Russian once, and taught myself the pronounciation of the Cyrillic alphabet, but have pretty much fogotten it all by now). Here's a pronounciation guide to the Cyrillic alphabet as used in Russian: http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/language/russian-alphabet.html ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
