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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Maybe in Belorussia. They say "f" at the and. Not "v".
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When i first read you saying that i thought you were full of shit. but going back in my mind and remembering pronunciations a little closer it really is annunciated with an f by any Russians I have spoken with or heard, but being a westerner my mind probably hears v instead. The distinction between the two is almost nothing, also why your language doesn't differentiate the two specifically with the alphabet, which is most likely why you are only hearing an F sound yourself. I think it stems back from the Soviet days. Nobody in the west would pronounce it Sofiet Union. The V is the most prominent consonant in that word. So we take that V and use it for anything else where you would use the "B" or what you would use for an F sound. B is also used as a v sound in spanish so there is also that distinction.
So essientially we can all be right here and are pretty much arguing semantics.