Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from  07.06.2013 16:12   
   about from Russian again.   
      
    AH> Hi & welcome, Herman!  Awhile ago you quoted in a message to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>>   Russian cosmonaunt: They're just looking for the last   
    RW>>   drop in their Vodka bottle.   
      
    ak>>>  What a love for astronomy!" Russian cosmonaunt: "They   
    ak>>>  just drink straight from the bottles."   
      
      
    AH>            Hmm.  I wonder who else can find the spelling error which Roy   
    AH> copied from Alexander's joke... probably without retyping... and which I   
    AH> didn't notice until just now?  Your juxtaposition of these quotes was   
    AH> what brought the matter to my attention, shortly after my discussion   
    AH> with Dallas re various terminology used by sailors.  Another way of   
    AH> saying the last five words in my last sentence might be [xxx].  If you   
    AH> don't get the drift, do you know of Jason and the [yyy] in Greek   
    AH> mythology?  IMHO English is less complicated when one understands what   
    AH> we've borrowed from whom, and this word is (bad pun) a classic   
    AH> example....  ;-)   
      
      
   cosmonaut! ;-) However, in English there are so many words with eaten   
   sounds, that it is no wonder that many thought that cosmonaunt is   
   correct. :)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2013   
      
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