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A certain Tennessean, who became a good friend of Boris Chaliapin, the Time cover artist, got off on the wrong foot when he heard the artist's name as Charley Apin . Since Boris was too polite to correct the Tennessean, and others who knew better found the mistake too amusing to rectify, that one American friend called Boris good ol' Charley Apin as long as the friend lived.
For instance, in English the name of the Russian composer is usually spelled Tchaikovsky and sometimes as Tschaikovsky or Tschaikowsky where three or four English letters are used to represent a sound represented by a single Russian letter and more normally by only two in English, ch . The name Chaliapin was first transliterated into a French spelling Chaliapine ; later, when most of the family moved to the United States, the e was dropped to Anglicize the spelling.