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That was a laminated piece of paper — so that was some heavy-duty grammar vandalism, indeed!
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Ha! I like this one, because it is phonetically interesting and it concerns transcriptions from another alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet in this case.
You might ask yourself: Why is there the second “h” in “Chekhov” as it serves no function in English. Well, in Russian it is a [x]-sound. I’m sorry, but there is no example in an English word for it. If you’ve been to Scotland to see Nessy the Monster, you’ll know that it (supposedly) lives in “Loch Ness”, and “loch” also has this [x]-sound.
Anyway, the “correct” spelling if you like can only be found in Russian, can’t it? Just check: http://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/anton_chekhov.
But here are a few other transcriptions for the poor man’s name in some European languages:
French: Tchekhov
Spanish: Chéjov
Italian: Cechov
German: Tschechow
Dutch: Tsjechov
Polish: Czechov
Not that I could speak all these…