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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] train stations
Date: Mon,  5 Apr 2004 14:15:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3606978edd0370513664efc164cb68c3@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0844d4730d503fcee80f873ed35defeb@snellwilcox.com>

> wasn't it vauxhall station ?
> 
> -Steve


http://www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/springgardens.shtml

quote:

	As a result, "Vauxhall" became a generic term for other
	pleasure gardens, including Bath's "Sydney Gardens" Vauxhall,
	much visited by Jane Austen.  Indeed, Vauxhall gave the
	Russians their word for "railway station" which is pronounced
	"vokzal".

in cyrillic it's "вокзал"

andrey



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-05 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-05 20:00 plan9fans
2004-04-05 20:15 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2004-04-05 21:53   ` Andrey S. Kukhar
2004-04-05 22:47   ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-05 20:59 ` George Michaelson

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