It's schtsch on the German Wiki, but the English spelling/pronunciation is shch as in "rash choice" and the name of the character is shchah (in English). -----Original Message----- From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of penstemon Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 9:37 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Voronof's snowdrop There is also a Russian character that represents a consonant sounding like English 'shch', which I presume ends up as schtsch, at least word-internally -- a consonant cluster that looks as awful as some in the practical orthography of Siberian Yupik. It does. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/… (Nothing whatsoever to do with bulbs.) Bob Nold