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To: Tax-chick
Mt personal peeve is ba-BOOSH-ka meaning a headscarf, when the proper Russian term is BA-booshka and means Grandma.
30 posted on 06/11/2016 5:04:35 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Mater et Magistra.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The trials of the multilingual ...

That’s a good example of a word that has jumped from another language into English use, with the wrong pronunciation and the wrong meaning ... just as ca-JONES presently is.


37 posted on 06/11/2016 5:27:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Air is great!" ~ Kathleen)
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