Sibilant offglide The below message was originally posted underneath What s so bad about an a Well I have to disagree on sibilant offglide in Russian palatalized t Indeed such a phenomenon is possible and quite frequent but nevertheless it s a typical feature of some dialects that should be avoided in standard normative speech This seems strange to me too Superscript stands for palatalization so it doesn t make sense to use it as an example for not being phonetically palatalized Maybe what was meant was it changes to This originates from this edit by