.Finally, the name of another alcoholic drink,vodka,comes into English from Russian, where it means literally "little water," as it is a diminutive ofvoda,"water"—a euphemism if ever there was one.Vodacomes from the same Indo-European form as Englishwater,but has a different suffix:*wod...
A Russian,a Cuban,an American businessman and an American lawyer were on a train traveling across England.The Russian took out a large bottle of vodka,gave each of the men a drink and then threw the rest half bottle of vodka out of the window."Why did you do that?" asked the America...
My class was composed of people whose parents were immigrants living in California. So they already spoke Russian or at least were used to how it sounds. I was in for a really big shock because I had taken a conversational Russian class when my vocabulary consisted of words like vodka and ...
Friday was the first day of Tsagaan Sar. We were all dressed in our Mongolian deels. Every house we visited had salads and buuz on the table with milk tea and vodka. We stayed at each house for at least an hour. There was a lot of: “Back in the car, Anna!”“ZAAAAA!” I ha...
A Russian.a Cuban.an American businessman and an American lawyer were on a train traveling across England. The Russian took out a large bottle of vodka, gave each of the men a drink and then threw the rest half bottle of vodka out of the window. “Why
The Russian took out a large bottle of vodka, gave each of the men a drink and then threw the rest half bottle of vodka out of the window. “Why did you do that?” asked the American businessman. “There’s too much vodka in my country,” said the Russian, “And really we have...
A Russian,a Cuban,an American businessman and an American lawyer were on a train traveling across England. The Russian took out a large bottle of vodka gave each of the men a drink and then threw the rest half bottle of vodka out of the window. “Why did you do that?” asked the ...
Stuck inside a floating vodka bottle, Fievel is carried to Liberty Island, where he is met by a pigeon named Henri, who is with a French delegation who are erecting the Statue of Liberty. Fievel is at first doubtful that he can even find his family in America, but Henri encourages him ...
“I was going to kill the president of the United States, and I felt completely relaxed. I chose a corner table in the hotel restaurant and ate a good dinner.” McDonald, the probing cop, asks: “Cocktail? Wine?” “Just one vodka and tonic,” he is told. The next morning Saul ...
For example, Smirnoff is produced in Illinois and hasn't been a Russian company for nearly 150 years. Stolichnaya is produced in Latvia. Zirkova isn't Russian either; it's a Ukrainian vodka company that has pledged 100 percent of its profits to Ukrainian humanitarian relief. ...