[kiryandil]

Could be, that’s an awful name if it’s real.

It's French with an entirely different pronunciation.

We Americans have a tendency to attempt to Anglicize any foreign words that we see.

It's ironic that the Cyrillic alphabet [Russian] looks so strange to us. If you could see it in the normal alphabet, there are A LOT of words in Russian that you'd recognize.

Lydie Denier's English is delicious.

[Arthur McGowan]

It's ironic that the Cyrillic alphabet [Russian] looks so strange to us. If you could see it in the normal alphabet, there are A LOT of words in Russian that you'd recognize.

That's true! Like "glasnost" and "perestroika."