Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

  • Hotspur21 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    How are you supposed to pronounce them? I usually say zh like a soft j and idk about kh

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Soft j is good. For kh it's closer to a hard h, so similar to the Scottish pronunciation for loch. Like it's not exactly an h, but imo it's a better approximation of the pronunciation than a k sound.