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What's In A Name?
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The Russian word for a railway station is a rendering of the London suburb (as was then) of Vauxhall
https:/ /london ist.com /2015/1 0/vokza l
It isn't quite the case, as we originally were told, that a Russian visitor to London mistook the name OF the station for the word FOR a station.
Sadly.
My favourite "name on its own language" has to be the mildly suggestive Magyarország: I think Mr Orban should make a similar declaration.
I do like "Turkiye" as a matter of fact.
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It isn't quite the case, as we originally were told, that a Russian visitor to London mistook the name OF the station for the word FOR a station.
Sadly.
My favourite "name on its own language" has to be the mildly suggestive Magyarország: I think Mr Orban should make a similar declaration.
I do like "Turkiye" as a matter of fact.
ichkeria, the people building the Moscow metro came to London to see how it was done. The Gants Hill station was built after the war and designed to look like a Moscow station (an austerity version without the chandeliers)
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https:/ /en.wik ipedia. org/wik i/Gants _Hill_t ube_sta tion
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"very deep in Kyiv, isn't it? "
It's deep everywhere in the old Soviet Union. Arsenal station in Kyiv is the deepest in the world, although the entrance is on a hill, which helps. Then a couple of stops or so later you are crossing the Dnipro on a bridge!
Kreshchatyk (where U2 played the other week) has the longest escalator in the world. It's actually a double escalator: I'm not sure if the measurement includes both bits. I could bore for Britain on this, so stop me now :-)
It's deep everywhere in the old Soviet Union. Arsenal station in Kyiv is the deepest in the world, although the entrance is on a hill, which helps. Then a couple of stops or so later you are crossing the Dnipro on a bridge!
Kreshchatyk (where U2 played the other week) has the longest escalator in the world. It's actually a double escalator: I'm not sure if the measurement includes both bits. I could bore for Britain on this, so stop me now :-)
egypt as misr?
too many puns on misery ( civil service is - misery not mystery)
auncient Coptos ( now Qift - never mind) a leedol village gave its name to the whole country ( miosis or metonymy) - Egypt
Damascus - as Dim -shack - lots of people think it now is....
this thread is quite educational, so it will obviously go soon
too many puns on misery ( civil service is - misery not mystery)
auncient Coptos ( now Qift - never mind) a leedol village gave its name to the whole country ( miosis or metonymy) - Egypt
Damascus - as Dim -shack - lots of people think it now is....
this thread is quite educational, so it will obviously go soon