It's карандаш, as somebody already said, but yeah, I'm sure that's where it's from. It's just like "hoover", "sellotape" and "blue-tac": they're actually product names, but they've come to be... just...
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It's карандаш, as somebody already said, but yeah, I'm sure that's where it's from. It's just like "hoover", "sellotape" and "blue-tac": they're actually product names, but they've come to be... just...
"Шляпа" sounds like a Yiddish slut.
Agreed.
Tee hee, "смелый". I thought "глупый" was bad enough.
Wait, I know a ridiculous one. Imagine yourself versed only in the Latin alphabet and reading "шапка"!
I wouldn't say I found anything properly Russian ridiculous, but I do dislike some of the English they absorbed, and I can't understand how they didn't come up with words way before us, in some...
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