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True or false: this letter is written as a plain E except in Russian texts for learners which is when it is written with the diaresis. 66.245.78.144 17:20, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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On the web I found some pages that translated Ё or yo with f---. Is that normal informal usage in Russian?--Hhielscher 16:49, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Other euphemisms (which are in themselves are meaningless expressions) include "yolki-palki" ("firs-sticks"), "yolki-motalki" ("firs-spinners") and "yozh tvoyu med" ("hedgehog your copper"). The firtst two have solidly lost the original association and are freely used in civilized (albeit colloquial) speech. `'Míkka 06:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
What's the "Civil" alphabet? Anton 03:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Remember 'Yo, Blair'? Though I don't think Bush speaks Russian. --Vladko 03:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
For quite some time I am horribly bugged with an enigma of some pre-Revolutionary names which are transcribed in some English books with 'yo', but I have never seen them with Ё. Examples include
The last two examples are by historians who worked with original documents of the period, and I doubt they made typos here. Does anyone know anything? `'Míkka 06:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
No dictionary I've seen alphabetizes Ё separately from Е, and one of my dictionaries explicitly states under the entry for Ё "not considered a separate letter of the Russian alphabet." Why then is it treated as such on Wikipedia? I would propose instead of "seventh letter of the Russia Cyrillic alphabet" something like "often shown after E in listings of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, but not considered a separate letter." However - listings for other letters are consistent, e.g. the article on Й states that it is the 11th letter of the alphabet while my dictionary states it is the 10th. Gr8white 02:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. I'm not sure what your point is regarding “Ы” - my dictionary lists it as "the 28th letter of the Russian alphabet." There don't have to be any words beginning with a character for it to be a letter and I didn't imply there has to be. It is alphabetized separately from every other letter in the words it appears in. I agree that a character doesn't need to be alphabetized separately in order to qualify as a letter - e.g. in the Spanish alphabet, "ch" and "ll" at one time were separated but no longer are, though they are still considered letters.Gr8white 16:24, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I think that this articles should be renamed to "Ё (cyrillic).WASP-CoRoT-1 (talk) 17:21, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
I was surprised to see that the android keyboard dictionary contains words in ye spelling only. Is it still common in general that computer software defaults to ye?--78.49.229.55 (talk) 15:48, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
However, the 〈ё〉 is not used in the Russian transcription of the Chinese language, as the syllable that is spelled you in pinyin is represented by 〈ю〉 in the standard Russian transcription, and yao is 〈яо〉.
This statement is wrong. The syllable yo is transcribed as ё. --2.245.192.184 (talk) 03:10, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
See the discussion in Talk:Ë.
I'm not a native Russian speaker, but could the German "Horst" not also be added to this list?64.231.8.210 (talk) 21:59, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Google documents spelling highlights all words with Yo (Ё ё) as misspelled, thus ignoring the fact that Yo is a legitimate letter of the Cyrillic script. I recon this information is worth adding to the article to maintain its consistency and true neutrality. 37.147.251.233 (talk)
"By and large, it is used only in dictionaries and in pedagogical literature intended for children and students of Russian as a second language." I never fully grasped the Russian languages despite some brave attempts to learn it. But these days, for obvious and not such good reasons, I once again see a lot of Russian. Many of these sources seem to use the letter yo. Can we conclude that this letter is becoming increasingly common in everyday written Russian? Steinbach (talk) 22:28, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
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