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😀 In a few years time the stress will probably be on the first syllable: (он/она) звОнит but not as the standard variant: звонИт. 🔻At least, that's what the Russian Academy of Sciences (РАН) believes. 🔻According to experts, this is a natural evolution of the Russian language: in all verbs ending in -ИТЬ (3rd person, sg, 2nd conjugation), the stress has been gradually shifting to the first syllable over the last 100 years: the verb вклЮчит (he switches on) used to be pronounced with the stress on the second syllable: включИт. 📎 The comments section of this news story exploded with outrage: people are ridiculing the innovation, speculating which official couldn't remember the correct version and decided to change the rule itself. #grammar_tips #news 😎RCRussian | Support | Boost