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Vissarion Dzhugashvili (1849–1909), father of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; Visarion Puiu (1879–1964), born as Victor Puiu, Romanian metropolitan bishop; Visarion Xhuvani (1890–1965), Primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania (s. 1929–37) Vissarion Lominadze (1897–1935), Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician
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Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич То́роп, Sergej Anatolʹevič Torop; born 14 January 1961), known as Vissarion (Russian: Виссарио́н, IPA: [vʲɪsərʲɪˈon], "He who gives new life" or "life-giving"), is a Russian spiritual teacher and founder of the non-profit, religious organization Church of the Last Testament, described by many ...
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...
Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...
Vissarion Vissarionovich Lominadze, best known by the Georgian diminutive "Beso," was born in Kutaisi, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) on June 6 (May 25 O.S.), 1897 into the family of a teacher.
Dzhugashvili or Jughashvili is a Georgian surname, a transliteration of ჯუღაშვილი.In Russian, it appears as Джугашвили.. Most famously, it is the birth surname of Joseph Stalin.