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Match 3 in a couple of hours. My 'hood has gone yellow and green.

Photos later.

The End wrote: My 'hood has gone yellow and green.

You can get an ointment for that.

Reg wrote:

The End wrote: My 'hood has gone yellow and green.

You can get an ointment for that.

The Hampton Heath Protest Group.

The 5-7 minutes of flags, music, anthems is the best I've ever experienced at football. The way the huge teardrop flags explode into life is fantastic.



Potentially the Brazilian end.



Animated chap being interviewed by TeleMundo.



Out-of-place, unusually-shaped Mexican.



A quartet of Chinese Neymars, one of which looks like he's about to take a dive...

Moscow en route to Nizhny Novgorod the morra.

The End wrote:The 5-7 minutes of flags, music, anthems is the best I've ever experienced at football. The way the huge teardrop flags explode into life is fantastic.

The Rain Forest Raider. You Wansum..... I'll Give it to Ya......You Shit Out..... You Got No Fans !!!

Norn Iron chap in my local, Bas! Not just for show, proper weirdy baldy head and sense of perpledexness.

EDIT - two of them!

Quality pics there, EndO.

Plus a thousand, Endo!

Loving the pics and long may the reign!

P.S What's the official pronunciation of Nizhny Novgorod? Heard about twenty attempts at it. I go with ''Neh-zssh-nay Nov-goh-rohd."

Any Jocks seen? (Cue this is a World Cup after all, haha) but seen a few Saltires and spotted an Irish tricolor at the NGA-ISL match just there.

The End wrote:Norn Iron chap in my local, Bas! Not just for show, proper weirdy baldy head and sense of perpledexness.

EDIT - two of them!

Tell them it's 25 degrees on the sunny Gold Coast and Belfast, not the wind and rain the lucky fuckers hoped they'd miss.

kevin04 wrote:What's the official pronunciation of Nizhny Novgorod?

In Cyrilic it's Нижний Нoвгород. Usually the letters only have one sound when spoken, but there are always exceptions to confuse the issue. It's pronounced Nizh-nyer Nov-ge-red.

Asked the missus. NIZSH-nee NOV-goh-rod

Ask soneone else, they'll say different. Accent and dialect does exist here.

Saint Petersburg? Sonkt-PEETER-burhhh.

JimmyDee wrote:

kevin04 wrote:What's the official pronunciation of Nizhny Novgorod?

In Cyrilic it's Нижний Нoвгород. Usually the letters only have one sound when spoken, but there are always exceptions to confuse the issue. It's pronounced Nizh-nyer Nov-ge-red.

That's really not correct (she says)

Course, she is from a city called Tyumen, of which I have heard five different pronunciations.

The End wrote:That's really not correct (she says)

Fair enough, although by and large, if you want to know how to pronounce Russian words look up the Cyrillic spelling. Is it Moss-coe or Moss-cow; neither, it's Moss-kvah There's certainly (as far as I know) nothing like what you might call the rough/plough/cough situation you get in English.
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On accents: so what is the "standard" Russian accent; the equivalent of "BBC" English? My translator friend presumably talks in THAT, but what is it, I wonder.