Teffi: advice about how to avoid being seasick.

[Paul B. Gallagher]

william ryan wrote:

> Hugh and Robert,
> I think British and colonial napes are the same - certainly two British
> dictionaries of Russian, the Oxford Russian Dictionary and the Penguin
> Russian Dictionary, give only "back of the head" for "zatylok" (and
> "zagrivok" for nape of the neck)....

It isn't hard to find dictionaries that give both senses for затылок:
<http://translate.academic.ru/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA/ru/en/> 
or <http://translate.academic.ru/затылок/ru/en/>, though properly "nape" 
ought to be always загривок, and if you enter "nape" you get only 
загривок. If you click "толкования" from there, the monolingual 
dictionaries are all consistent in giving the "occiput" sense; only the 
Russian-English dictionaries give "nape" as an alternative.

So I agree with your position, but the question was a reasonable one to ask.

-- 
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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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