Thread: When "г" is not pronounced "g"...

Originally Posted by TATY

Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli

I have a dialect question:

I'm not sure where she came from, but I had a Russian professor born and bred in the Soviet Union. She was communist from the top of her red head to the bottom of her feet.

She would sometimes say the word "его" not as 'ево' but as 'е-г-о.'

Is there any such dialect as this?

In Russian lessons, teachers sometimes may pronounce the Г as G when it should be pronounced V in order to make it clear how it's spelt.

Nah, it was Russian lit and she definitely did not make it easy to learn Russian - but we memorized more pieces of Russian literature than I've ever learned in English.

Maybe it's some sort of Tsar Ivan speech, because I think she was born in that era.