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It sounds so natural that I immediately started thinking I had actually been saying it wrong all these years.



I think I'm going to adopt this new pronounciation.


pronunciation*

(it's one of few weird words that change spelling when you add a suffix, such as fridge/refrigerator)


This is actually how you say it in Russian. Try Google Translate.


fwiw, it's the way everyone in Russia pronounces it


Yup. I thought it was part if the joke (that in a few generations, we might pronounce old language names differently).


How do you usually pronounce it?




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