Questions about individual letters of the alphabet
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Why does ы have a soft sign in it?
It's the only letter with two disconnected parts. How did this letter ы come about?
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Is it considered a mistake to write "его" and "ето" instead of эго and это?
Is it considered a mistake to write его and ето instead of эго and это?
I found it many times when people change between the letters е and э in this words, and I'm no sure if it's mistake or just a matter of style.
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What is the difference between the letters Е and Э?
What is the difference between the letters Е and Э?
Based on my book, they are both like E in English.
My friend (he's not a Russian native speaker) explained to me that Э is a consonant and Е is a vowel. Is that true?
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Old form of cursive
On the page http://vremya4e.com/interes/16025-temy-sochineniy-dlya-gimnazistov-v-carskoy-rossii.-eto-vam-ne-ege.html there is an image of a handwritten essay from 1917 whose title begins with Развитие, but the written form of з looks quite different…
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What's the meaning of "б" on its own?
The song Подмосковные вечера a "б" used on its own:
Если б знали вы, как мне дороги
What does this mean?
Thank you in advance.
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Why do names such as Гаянэ or Арминэ have "э" rather than "е"?
For comparison, we do not write Манэ or Монэ et cetera. They are Мане and Моне.
Why then Гаянэ and not Гаяне?
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How to ask someone to send me a shipment using regular mail instead of courier mail?
I have a Russian artist friend who speaks terrible English and I speak terrible Russian. He's sending me this amulet that he made which is small enough to fit in an envelope. How do I explain to him to send it to me using regular mail in an envelope…
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Как правильно образовывать отчества от мужских имён, оканчивающихся на -ий?
Если конкретно, то интересует имя Аполлинарий. Но вообще хотелось бы узнать, есть ли общий алгоритм. Согласно советским словарям, пишут и так и этак, например: Геннадий — Геннадьевич/Геннадьевна, Геннадиевич/Геннадиевна. То есть то с мягким знаком,…
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Identifying characters
I took this picture at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. I'm a graphic designer and I'm curious about this typography, I think it's cyrillic writing or maybe an old alphabet, I could be wrong. I already tried to match each shape with the cyrillic…
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Why is the letters M and T are similar in hand writing in Russian language?
Why is the letters M and T (м and m) are similar in hand writing in Russian language?
For example: от → оm. vs. oм
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