servera'

[James West]

I've been intrigued by this, too - I suppose it's part of the
assimilation pattern for loanwords of this type in Russian, quite a few
of which have, or have had, a stressed-a plural, in many cases where the
word end in -er (e.g. "ofitser" is sometimes given the plural "ofitsera" by
less educated speakers). Linguists - some comment?

                                                     James West

On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, John Dingley wrote:

> Perhaps I am missing the obvious, but why should the Russian
> for a (computer) server have an -a' plural, i.e. servera'?
> Are we simply dealing here with an example of "technical/
> professional parlance", or are there other factors at play?
>
> John Dingley
>