Russian for "handout"

[Gerald Janecek]

I've heard "khendaut" used recently at a RAN 
conference by reputable native Russian scholars.

>SEELANGStsy!
>
>An utterly frivolous question for a Monday afternoon: what would be the the
>best Russian equivalent for the word ³handout² (=xeroxed materials given out
>in class)?  My informants (= 2 native speaker teaching assistants!) tell me
>that ³razdatochnye materialy² doesn¹t necessarily mean the material is
>xeroxed (eg, it could include books distributed in class).  I have the sense
>that I¹ve seen/heard the word ³khendaut², but am I right in suspecting that
>this is a creation of American teachers of Russian / teachers of Russian in
>America?
>
>Curiously,
>
>Nicole
>
>
>
>
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>Nicole Monnier
>Assistant Professor of Instruction
>Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
>German & Russian Studies
>415 GCB
>University of Missouri
>Columbia, MO 65211
>
>phone: 573.882.3370
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