Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
Yes, if read according to the French rules "Putin" sounds like "whore" that's why they use "Putin" instead of "Putin".
Not really. Putin is simply the English spelling according to the English transliteration. Since the rules of pronunciation is different in French we go by a different transliteration that also matches the French spelling and that's the reason we spell it Poutine.
But with some imagination, the way Putin is spelled would sound like putain if it were pronounced strictly according to the French pronunciation rules.