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Why "Gitler?" I'm pretty sure "Hitler" in Russian is still pronounced "Hitler", just spelled differently.
 

Dathi THorfinnsson

LeoXiao said:
Why "Gitler?" I'm pretty sure "Hitler" in Russian is still pronounced "Hitler", just spelled differently.
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No, Russian doesn't have an 'h' at all. "Hydrodynamics" is "Gydrodynamica", "Hitler" is "Gitler", etc. No, I don't know why.

Ukrainian has something rendered by 'h' which is the IPA lower case gamma thingy, and the letter used is the variant of the 'g'/'capital gamma' that Russian and other slavic languages use for 'g'. But even that 'h' is not anything like what you or I would really call an 'h'.

Modern Russians often use the Khah (X shape, Greek Chi) when trying to render an English 'h', but that's not how they transliterated things.
 
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