Re: [TML] Question Timothy Collinson 20 Jul 2014 08:25 UTC

> On 20 Jul 2014, at 09:11, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:33:59 -0700, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:
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>> This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (xxxxxx@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows:
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>> What is the correct Russian patronymic for Son of Peter?
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> ????????, generally rendered in English as "Petrovitch"

Awwww, and there was me waiting for someone to do it Cyrillic!

While I'm here, I learned a year or three back that my (female) friend
from Czech Republic with the surname Fusova was daughter of Mr Fus.
(think it meant 'fudge' meaning her exotic sounding name translated at
as Helen Fudge which sounded nicely English.)

tc