Thread: How is Boukreev pronounced?

Book-r-YE-yev - is fine. That's how it is pronounced in Russian.

Really? That's probably an unknown dialect.

As far as I understand, Boukreev = Букреев , so it's Book-r-YE-yev (to me, as as speaker of Russian, the pronunciation and the stress are correct, and I see no other way a Russian could pronounce it).

Originally Posted by alexsms

Book-r-YE-yev - is fine. That's how it is pronounced in Russian. The correct spelling I think should be Bukreev or Bukreyev (according to transliteration rules), because Putin is spelled Putin , not Poutin or Pootin.

Originally Posted by Marcus

Really? That's probably an unknown dialect.

"Book-r-YE-yev" here you wrote "ye" separately of the preceding "r" that implies separate pronunciation, which in turn comes to "ye" been pronounced as in "yes" with "i the short" consonant just after "r". While it should be pronounced like "re" (ре) not "r-ye" (рье).

If Marcus were not so sarcastic it would be of more help to the forum users to understand the subject.