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[slovami.livejournal.com]

In class today we were reading out loud and came to the phrase:

люди XVII–XVIII веков (people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries).

How would you read that? Please think about it before you look under the cut! Well, html isn't working so well in this browser, so just think about it before you read the next line.

The professor said it would be correct to say семнадцатых–восемнадцатых веков. But then one student said his old teacher taught him to say семнадцатого–восемнадцатого веков. Who is right?

Thanks!

Comments

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

do you pronounce тире or no?

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

No, you don't.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

No punctuation marks are pronounced (in any language; do you pronounce dots and commas in English?). Тире is a punctuation mark, just in case ;-)