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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

How would you recommend me to pronounce the word дождь?

I learnt in school that Mocovites say [дожьжь], (but there is noway I'm gonna pronounce it like that. I'll never say [пожьжье] either... it just feels very akward)

That peterburgers say [дошш]

But now I heard a new variant in a song: [дошть]

I really rather like the last one... Can I use it in speech?

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[karakal.livejournal.com]

examples:

http://www.piter.fm/artist/аквариум/song_703904 (first two lines; Grebenshchikov is a St. Petersburg-based singer/songwriter)

http://megalyrics.ru/lyric/алиса/дождь.htm
(video is below ads on the page; Kinchev is also based in St. Petersburg, but he was born and raised in Moscow)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

merci!