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The American Heritage Dictionary (2006) Fourth edition, published by Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-82517-2; Ayto, John (1999). 20th Century Words. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860230-8; Hendrickson, Robert (1997) Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins. Checkmark Books, ISBN 0-8160-4088-5
Runglish, Ruslish, Russlish (Russian: рунглиш, руслиш, русслиш), or Russian English, is a language born out of a mixture of the English and Russian languages. This is common among Russian speakers who speak English as a second language, and it is mainly spoken in post-Soviet States .
Russian Americans (Russian: русские американцы, romanized: russkiye amerikantsy, IPA: [ˈruskʲɪje ɐmʲɪrʲɪˈkant͡sɨ]) are Americans of full or partial Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in ...
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The term Olbanian is an alteration of Albanian, although Albanian is not used to create Olbanian slang.. Learn Olbanian! (Russian: Учи олбанский!) is a popular phrase that was coined in a 2004 incident in LiveJournal when an English language user found a post written in Russian, which he didn't understand and was unable to translate.
The Ukrainian zamowliannia (замовляння) and Belarusian zamowy (замовы) are semantically identical to the Russian zagovory, as they both possess the root -mov ('speech'). Both of these East Slavic words are close to the Polish term zamawianie. Polish folklore retains rudiments of verbal magic as zamawianie choroby ('popular ...
"Anglo-Saxons" (Russian: Англосаксы, romanized: Anglosaksy) is a derogatory propagandistic term used by the government of Russia under President Vladimir Putin and pro-Kremlin media in Russia to refer to the Anglosphere, [1] especially the United Kingdom and the United States.
Alaskan Russian, known locally as Old Russian, is a dialect of Russian, influenced by Eskimo–Aleut languages, spoken in what is now the U.S. state Alaska since the Russian colonial period. Today it is prevalent on Kodiak Island and in Ninilchik ( Kenai Peninsula ), Alaska; it has been isolated from other varieties of Russian for over a century.