Damn, getting some hate for this post. Thanks, I guess. Lemme rephrase this post title, since this is the part I was curious about in the beginning anyway til everyone fixated on the “tion” and ignored the original ask altogether.

  • ALERT@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    You think Ukrainian Борщ (written stupidly in English as “Borscht”) is hard to pronounce, but actually, you all know how to pronounce this щ letter, if you pronounce “question” like “kwesh-chun”, this “sh-ch” is exactly as we Ukrainians pronounce the letter “щ”. So how could anyone write “Borscht” with “shch” sound? It’s Borshch!

    To borscht or not to borshch, that is the borstion!