zagranitsa

[Alina Israeli]

>Does anyone happen to know when and in what circumstances the Russian
>noun 'zagranitsa' appeared? I would be very grateful for any pointers to
>sources or contexts in which it first appeared.

In my memory the very first use of it that I remember and that struck me
then as incorrect occurred in the song by Vysotskij "Nejtral'naja polosa"
(1966):

"Emu i na fig ne nuzhna byla chuzhaja ZAGRANICA
On projtit'sja xotel po nichejnoj zemle...

A na nejtral'noj polose cvety - neobychajnoj krasoty"

If you examine the text it has a lot of substandard elements.

AI

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Alina Israeli
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Washington, DC 20016

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