The seventh letter

[William Ryan]

Thanks, Jan, for that link. Hilarious. And having recently watched a 
drunk embracing the statue of Okudhava on the Arbat I can understand why 
the 'bolee chistoplotnye grazhdane' preferred to kiss the monument 
through a napkin!
Will Ryan

Zielinski wrote:
> John Dunn:
>
>   
>> Любой поцелуй – это всегда приятно. Целовать букву "ё" приятно вдвойне.
>>     
> [Ljuboj poceluj – eto vsegda prijatno.  Celovat' bukvu 'jo' prijatno
> vdvojne]
>   
>> What more can one say?
>>     
>
> What more? There is even a monument of that letter, in Ulyanovsk (Symbirsk),
> and a peculiar custom to kiss it:
>
> http://www.newizv.ru/news/2007-07-10/72478/
>
> Jan Zielinski
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