Thread: First attempt at my Name

Originally Posted by TATY

If you want to write English words in Russian Cyrillic you do it by sound over spelling. Basically because English words are often spelled completely differently to their pronunciation.

Notice in English the second letter of David and Manchester is an A, but notice they are completely different sounds. David, it like day, whereas Manchester is like man. Usually the latter sound is transliterated as Э but the common spelling of the city in Russian is with an A.

Дэвид
Манчестер

Thank You TATY I understand it much more now once again thank you very much