Re: Sob, it's true about uvular R

"Marc Adler" <marc.adler@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
>> Russian has no phoneme that corresponds directly to Germanic
>> /h/. As a result, for a not-insignificant number of people, the
>> Second World War involved the Soviet Union defeating Адольф Гитлер,
>> “Adolf Gitler.”
>
> What's funnier is Dostoevski's battle against the nigilists.

There is also the Gamil'tony, a family of Scottish Hamiltons who went
to Russia & married into the aristocracy. One of them, apparently by
chance, managed to act out in remarkable detail the story in the
Scottish ballad "Mary Hamilton" (Child 173). Child, who researched
her grotesque story with his usual thoroness, could not find out when
& why these Hamiltons had migrated to Russia, and Google is silent on
the subject.
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