Subj : Russian surnames
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Roy Witt
Date : Fri Jul 06 2018 22:01:01

alexander koryagin wrote to Roy Witt:

 ak>>> This question is for native speakers.
 ak>>> When you read in a newspaper Russian second names, like
 ak>>> Dudikoff, Karloff, Degtereff where do you put an emphasis?
 ak>>> At the beginning of the name or at its end?

 RW>> No emphasis...they all seem to be two sylable names, except
 RW>> maybe the last one could be three.

 RW>> Dudi-caugh
 RW>> Kar-loff
 RW>> Deg-tereff or Deg-ter-eff

 ak> Until this moment, I thought that every word in English has its
 ak> proper emphasis. Sometimes a word can have two emphases....

Or even more.


         R\%/itt


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