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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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[master-yourself.livejournal.com]

Я гоаорю [дошть], [пожже]

[surkova.livejournal.com]

I say either дошть or дощь

[gulaby.livejournal.com]

Yes, sure you can use the last one. I prefer this variant too. But it is not an academic pronunciation.

[viata.livejournal.com]

For the record, it's rather [дощ] than [дожьжь], due to devocalisation.

And yes, [дошть] will do fine :>

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

a but you are moskovite :-).
Ooops, nobody says дошш? maybe they taught us that peterburgers say Дощь.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

then I will too!

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

spasibo!

[mrmeloman.livejournal.com]

All my friends and I use [дошть]. I remember that is's the rightest way to speak

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

a, thanks!

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

spasibo!

[emperor-spock.livejournal.com]

/дошть/, /пожжэ/. /Дожьжь/, /дошш/ sound super-weird to me.

[mithrilian.livejournal.com]

I've never heard дошшш, and I suspect дожьжь is going out of use, albeit slowly. Дожьжь was used during Soviet times on TV and the radio, especially the radio. They had very strict rules not allowing for local variations.

So, personally, I think дошть is perfectly acceptable and has always been so (during the latter part of the XX century, at least) in normal speech.

[orrine.livejournal.com]

Most people say [дошть]. For me [дожьжь] is somewhat local pronounsation.

[surkova.livejournal.com]

am I? :P I was born and raised here http://g.co/maps/g7w6q (though, raised 15km away from there, but it's still the same place)
but I admit that muscovite's norm has had a certain affect on my way of pronunciation.
I heard that дощь is more of an academic norm. same, at school we were told to pronounce скучно as скушно, though no one did.

[greenboot.livejournal.com]

http://music.yandex.ru/#/track/2780207/album/298239

[dair-spb.livejournal.com]

+1

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

so you say дощь?

[4px.livejournal.com]

дошть only
дощь and дожьжь are weired ))

[racoonbear.livejournal.com]

My wife (she is from Omsk) says "дошть", and I say something between it and "дождь", closer to "дождь".

[khanuka.livejournal.com]

There's no [дош]!
Both [дощ] and [дошть] are OK. [дощ] sounds a bit old fashioned, though.

[karakal.livejournal.com]

Most people around me pronounce дошть - in St. Petersburg, Moscow and even in the Crimea, Ukraine.

moscovite

[chaosmalefic.livejournal.com]

[дощь] and [дождь]. depends on my mood

[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)

[alamar.livejournal.com]

In russian, you can always pronounce any word as it is written when in doubt.

It might sound funny, but is never wrong. After all, it's written that way! :)
The only remaining haunting thing is where to stress some long words.

[ushastyj-zver.livejournal.com]

You were taught a little bit the wrong way.
The Moscow standard has always been [дощщ'] (for nominative case), but [дожж'и], [дожж'а], etc. It's impossible to pronounce [дожж'] separately, it would just go against the major rule of Russian pronounciation (we read "друг" as [друк], "флаг" as [флак], etc.).
The Petersburg standard (which is actually the standard for the Russian language in general since the middle of the 20th century, the old Moscow standard is used in Moscow and sometimes in the theatres, despite their real whereabouts) has always been [дошть].