Monday, October 23, 2006

How they pronounce it

Lot of people looking for Nabokov today.

According to Creelea, the Baxblog's erstwhile Russian correspondant, the correct pronunciation is nahBOWkawv.

Today's assortment of manglings:

NA-ba-kawv (which, to be fair, is how I used to pronounce it)
NOBOW-koff
NAB-KOV
"that dude who wrote LOLITA"

Still, they all get the point across.

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