Any Russians Reading This? I Have a Petr Yan Question.

[Leonard Haid]

Question: Why does he spell his first name "Petr"?

If he had spelled his first name in English the correct way, nobody would mispronounce it. His name in English should be spelled "Pyotr", as in the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In Russian - to those non-Russians out there who have bothered to read this far - it's "Пётр". П = P, ё = yo, t = t, and p = r.

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[SouthpawSouthernFist]

The answer is Cyka.

 

[kingmob6]

Question: Why does he spell his first name "Petr"?

If he had spelled his first name in English the correct way, nobody would mispronounce it. His name in English should be spelled "Pyotr", as in the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In Russian - to those non-Russians out there who have bothered to read this far - it's "Пётр". П = P, ё = yo, t = t, and p = r.

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yes that's right, Pyotr is the best way to spell how you pronounce it in Russian, however, most names get pronounced incorrectly in english, so it doesn't really matter and that applies to most other languages as well. If someone named Peter goes to Russia, they will call him Pyotr.

 

[Midget Boxer]

In Russia name calls you

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

in ufc we speak american and pyotr aint no name we use it's petr!

 

[Slatersan]

Pee-yoter

 

[Joseph Alfano]

Question: Why does he spell his first name "Petr"?

If he had spelled his first name in English the correct way, nobody would mispronounce it. His name in English should be spelled "Pyotr", as in the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In Russian - to those non-Russians out there who have bothered to read this far - it's "Пётр". П = P, ё = yo, t = t, and p = r.

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Likely one of the following things happened.
1. He chose an English sounding name that sounded close to his actual name rather than a direct translation from the cyrillic to latin alphabet.

2. Some intern at UFC heard his name pronounced and just wrote Petr

3. Russia also uses the latin alphabet but like with any languages that share an alphabet letters can make different sounds. For example in Italian
Ci makes the chee sound as opposed to see and chi sounds like the word key instead chee. So when writting his name in the latin alphabet its possible "Petr" would be pronounced Pyotr in Russia

 

[Serge421]

It's actually Peeter

 

[TPMR]

cheatr butr petr

 

[mjfan23]

He got DQd from spelling class

 

[dipstickjimmy]

It's pronounced in UFC as "illegal-knee-tor"

 

[Black Paladin]

It's pronounced in UFC as "illegal-knee-tor"

Underrated Sherdogger.

Hahhahahahahahhahahah!!!

 

[Black Paladin]

He got DQd from spelling class

Ouch.