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Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, PhD ( March 24, 1946 ) (, )< ref > When he became a French citizen, " Alekhine " became the correct way to spell his name in the Latin alphabet.

He became angry when Russians sometimes pronounced the ⟨ е ⟩ ye of Alekhin as ⟨ ё ⟩ yo,, which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was < span style =" white-space: nowrap ;">" Al-YEH-khin "</ span >.

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