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tetromino_
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How a Mistake Gave Us the Word 'Cherry'
Example in the other direction: "baks" (бакс), from English
plural
"bucks", was borrowed into Russian as the
singular
colloquialism for a US dollar. A hundred bucks would be "sto baksov" (~ a hundred buckses).
apricot
on Feb 25, 2017
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I got a hundred buckses in my pocketses.
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