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To: bobsunshine

Uh, what’s the feminine of Czar?

Czarova? Czaress? Czarina?

Just axin.


6 posted on 11/30/2017 5:56:26 AM PST by OKSooner (Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
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To: OKSooner

Czarina I believe.


15 posted on 11/30/2017 6:15:00 AM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: OKSooner

Czar is Polish origin. There is a czarina but we never use it for a female government czar. I use and prefer tsar and tsarina as this is the romanticized spelling of the Cyrillic word.
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19 posted on 11/30/2017 6:25:17 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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