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From: shenry@lucy.wellesley.edu (Suzanne Henry)
Subject: re:The Russian letter bl
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There do exist miinmal pairs that distinguish the hard and soft /i/ in
Russian.  For example, bitz (to beat) versus byitz (to be).

