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I know I pick on Alex Trebek's inability to pronounce Russian words - but only because he insists on "subtly" correcting contestants when they say a French name in the American way. But tonight he amazed me when he pronounced "Stalin" so that the first syllable is like that of "stallion" instead of "stall".
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At 11:55 AM, December 30, 2010
mike had this to say...
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At 8:57 AM, January 20, 2011
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At 11:32 AM, January 20, 2011
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I think that's a Canadianism. They also say "pasta" weird. :-)
Puzzled by the phrase "instead of "stall"". The only pronunciation of Stalin I know of isn't like "stall" at all. Equally not like "stallion".
Hmmm. I'm puzzled. How do you say "Stalin", then? Russians pronounce it with an "ah" sound, and I'm picking on Alex because lots of Americans say it with the same flat a as in "dad" or "cat" - like "stallion" only with the last syllable as "in".
I'd write it as "stahl", not "stall". The latter has a very different "a", at least as I say it (it sounds more like "stawl").
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