Danylo Centore, Author at Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/author/danylo/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:13:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Danylo Centore, Author at Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/author/danylo/ 32 32 Why do Ukrainians mix up H and Х? https://forgottengalicia.com/why-do-ukrainians-mix-up-h-and-x/ https://forgottengalicia.com/why-do-ukrainians-mix-up-h-and-x/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:07:02 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=52098 Ukrainian speakers often confuse the English H and the Ukrainian Х sound. This can be seen in a variety of places, like the common transcription of “happy birthday” as “хеппі бурздей”. When Russian speakers do this it seems to make sense – Russian does not have an “H” sound at […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/oy-u-luzi-chervona-kalyna-origins-of-the-sich-riflemen-song/feed/ 0 Why Does the Diaspora Write Their Дs So Strangely? https://forgottengalicia.com/why-does-the-diaspora-write-their-ds-so-strangely/ https://forgottengalicia.com/why-does-the-diaspora-write-their-ds-so-strangely/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:17:04 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9940 People in Ukraine are usually perplexed when they see Ukrainians from the diaspora write their Дs like this: However, in the American and Canadian diasporas, this is an extremely common way of handwriting the letter Д — that is, a triangle with a leg inside as opposed to a flat-top […]

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