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
next prev parent 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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