Russian cellphone jargon

[Helen Halva]

I often heard "stiralka" in Rostov-na-Donu . . . . Maybe due to location 
not far from Ukraine?

HH




At 09:44 AM 1/17/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>I guess it just shows that Russian is manyfold as other languges.
>Eastern Ukraine and Moscow might handle it differently.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
>
>On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Deborah Hoffman wrote:
>
>............../snip/...........
> >   I had a house guest from Eastern Ukraine who called my machine 
> stiralka. Do people really go to the trouble of saying stiral'naia 
> mashina in everyday conversation instead?
>
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