corrections Re: [free-sklyarov] American spelling of Sklyarov

[Alex Fabrikant]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Richard M. Smith wrote:
> BTW, One American spelling of "Sklyarov" is "Sclaroff".  The name
> is pretty much pronounced as it is spelled:
>     Sc-lair-off
> Yahoo finds 12 Sclaroff's living here in the US.

Yes, those were _once_ the same name; the pronounciation of the last name
"Sclaroff" in the US is as you said. This does not mean that it's the same
in terms of pronounciation as the Russian original. See previous
discussion for details.

> The US Attorney's Office tried to put a "Sky" in the front of the name
> when I spoke to them on the phone, but they are confused. ;-)

Indeed they are.

> The name means "scholar" in Russian.

As the other natives have pointed out, it ceartainly does NOT directly
mean that in modern Russian. My HUNCH is that the etymology is >90% likely
to have ONCE been from the same root as the English "scholar" (presumably
diverging at Greek), but do NOT take this for a fact until someone
verifies the etymology, which I don't have time to do right now, and can
given reasonable evidence behind their claim...

-- 
-alexf