GeneD
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2017
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Belarus
- Current Location
- Belarus
On computer keyboards, there's a key named Ctrl. It's not translated on Russian keyboards, and Russian speakers call it contral (with the stress on the first syllable). Сtrl obviously means control, but, interestingly, this Russian speaking source says that the word should be pronounced as ['k əntrοl]. I'm not good at reading transcription, but doesn't the stress there lie on the second syllable? I think it's some mistake, but what do native speakers think of it? Shouldn't the stress be on the second syllable as in the normal word control?
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