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Böögg! - I’d almost be willing to post Claire Moses’ NY Times story (archived) just for the bare existence of the word Böögg, but I’ll use the proposed etymology in...
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New Translations Published in 2023 - [image: New Translations Published in 2023] Another year, another list of new translations! Though I haven’t been writing regular posts this year abou...
The Flaxen Wave

"What Do Sheep Talk About?" by Irina Yevsa - *Site of shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022 / Photo by Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy (Reuters)* Today, Russian troops invaded Ukraine. There have ...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk

Off with their heads! Why are Lewis Carroll misquotes so common online? - Following a recent similar Royal Mint slip-up, the Westminster Collection’s new 50p coins have sent Carroll experts down an internet rabbit hole to sourc...
bulbulovo

in which I ponder the passage of time - Y'all, I am getting old. If the high blood pressure, the creaking knee and other assorted ailments weren't a strong enough sign, earlier this week, I had a...
Culture

"Our concert halls are like museums." Yes, isn't it wonderful! - I was given a beautiful book for Christmas last year – Rendez-vous with Art by Philippe de Montebello, Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art fo...
Isak

I've Moved! - Please note: this site has moved over to www.annaclark.net, and all further updates, posts, stories, and more will appear only there. Thanks to Typepad for...
j'apprends le russe I learn russian

I have moved! - I have moved! To another blog called *Oxford, Paris and other things* Hope to see you there Lucile
Motivated Grammar

The seductive fear that you’re using words wrong - It’s a dark night; you’re in an unfamiliar city, slightly lost, but pretty sure you’ll know where you are if you just get to the next corner. The streets a...
Johnson

Punnest weekend ever - A pun is a pun is a pun but is not always fun
Mademoidame

Bienvenue à Mademoidame - Bienvenue à la demoidame récemment rencontrée qui s'intéresse à *mademoidame*, elle se reconnaîtra. Elle a commencé à employer *mademoidame* et à en parle...
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Soviet television shows California (1976) - What did the Soviet people know about USA? How did they see America? California Today is a short documentary (26 minutes) made in 1976 by the Soviet tele...
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The Captain's Daughter (1836), Alexander Pushkin
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Luck - At dusk I am standing in front of the Staatsbibliothek with two large bags of loan books on my shoulders. I’m looking on my mobile which bus comes first...
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Russian section on Daily Telegraph

Ukraine has strengthened French-German ties, and Britain can benefit -
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Russian Dinosaur

Thank you for the radishes: Edmund Wilson in dialogue with Helen Muchnic - In 1942, the literary critic and Princeton graduate, Edmund Wilson, then forty-seven, made friends with a scholar of Russian literature slightly young...
1 year ago
Russia, Past and Present

Zoshchenko, satirist of the Soviet Union - AS ANYONE who has tried (and failed) to crack a joke in a foreign language knows, humour is the marker of linguistic mastery. The only thing harder than cr...
5 years ago
Sam Van Olffen

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7 years ago
Eastern approaches

Transylvanian surprise - IN A world where politics often seem locked down by political scientists and campaign consultants, it is nice to be surprised once in a while.
9 years ago