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Help[Opinions] Re: Foreign Variants
in reply to a message by JemimahGertrude
Definitely!
Agnes / Annice (English), Inessa (Russian)
Margaret / Marit (Dutch), Marzena (Polish), Maisie (Scottish)
Christine / Kjersti (Norwegian), Kirsi (Finnish)
George / Jiří (Czech), Yuri (Russian), Jory (Cornish)
Basil / Vasiliy (Russian)
*****
And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well;
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Robert Southey, "The March to Moscow"
Agnes / Annice (English), Inessa (Russian)
Margaret / Marit (Dutch), Marzena (Polish), Maisie (Scottish)
Christine / Kjersti (Norwegian), Kirsi (Finnish)
George / Jiří (Czech), Yuri (Russian), Jory (Cornish)
Basil / Vasiliy (Russian)
*****
And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well;
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Robert Southey, "The March to Moscow"
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