Did you know that "a newt" (in Russian, тритон) was originally "an eft" and "a nickname" (кличка) was "an ekename"? Going in the opposite direction, "an apron" (фартук) was historically "a napron",...
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Did you know that "a newt" (in Russian, тритон) was originally "an eft" and "a nickname" (кличка) was "an ekename"? Going in the opposite direction, "an apron" (фартук) was historically "a napron",...
Also, by the way, there's a classic Russian children's novel (and an animated adaption of it) called В стране невыученных уроков ("In the Land of Unlearned Lessons") -- if you're familiar with The...
One little point of trivia for ShakeyX. Historically, at least, pronouncing the unstressed О with its full value (as о, not а or ə) was an important marker of "regional dialect" -- kind of like...
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