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You may notice that some of the letters in the Russian alphabet in Table 2-1 look a lot like English letters: Check out Aa, Bв, Ee, Кк, Mм, Hн, Oo, Pp, Cc, and Xx, for example. Guess what? Some (but not all!) of them even sound like English letters. The letters that look like English and are pronounced like English letters are

 Aa: pronounced as ah or uh, depending on the stress (ah in a stressed syllable and uh in an unstressed syllable)

 Кк: pronounced as k

 Mм: pronounced as m

 Oo: pronounced as oh or ah, depending on the stress (oh in a stressed syllable and ah in an unstressed syllable)

 Tт: pronounced as t