Anglo mis-stressing

[Alina Israeli]

On May 11, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Meredig, John wrote:

> This latest thread brings to mind the mnemonic devices in English used
> to remember various words and phrases in Russian, such as "Nice
> driveway!", "yellow blue tibia", and the infamous "Does your ass fit
> ya!" (supposedly taught to American soldiers in the Second World  
> War so
> they could greet their Russian allies--say it really fast and it works
> passably. I suspect the story may be apocryphal. It sounds too good to
> be true--can anyone vouch for its authenticity? I do use it on Day One
> of beginning Russian and it never fails to make an impression).
>
> Perhaps there are more such phrases out there?


Dogs feet on you.


Alina Israeli
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