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On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:24:56 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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Knowing French, German and Latin has helped me considerably with Russian.

I got severely bollocked at school for daring to suggest that the word
"combine" (as in combine harvester) was of English origin, not
Russian.

Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC

Most successful Russian inventor named Comrade Reguspatoff.

jsw