Hello Radovan, RG> that is indeed the "official" pronunciation,
No, it really isn't! RG> and if you ask an (educated) Russian RG> speaker to slowly pronounce a word with [U+0429] he will pronounce it as RG> [StS] No, he really won't! RG> but I guess it is influenced by orthography. What's the orthography got to do with it?? -- Anatoly Vorobey, my journal (in Russian): http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton

