re: #413 Sergey Romanov

Well, here’s how it is pronounced:

[Link: www.forvo.com…]

In Russian phonetization (sp?) it’s ” Nad’ “, where d’ is “soft d” (actually it’s somewhere between soft /g/ and soft /d/). But that’s my point - in English it’s not customary to transform Latin names to conform to English spelling. Another example - Enver Hoxha. How would one pronounce it without knowing beforehand the Albanian pronunciation? I’m just curious how children or average folks pronounce it. I guess like the English pronounce Quixote ;)

My first instinct is “EN-vair HO-sha”.