[Fwd: scavenger hunt score keeping!]

[Lynne Murphy]

Whoops--I left out the word "station" after "train"!  Apologies.  The
romanization is admitedly bad.

Lynne

"A. Vine" wrote:

> Lynne Murphy wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 42. Russian word derived from the name of a British train station (& the
> > > name of the train station) * Russian word for train (which is something
> > > like boksal when transliterated in to roman alphabet) derives from
> > > Vauxhall Station.
>
> Nyet, ne tochno.  "vokzal" (a more accurate transliteration) means railroad
> station.  A train is a "poezd" which comes from the verb "to go by vehicle"
> (perfective form, I think).
>
> Andrea

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