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I thought this might be interesting to learn the language the way your grandparents use to speak - maybe  A glossary of terms used by Ukrainian-Canadians in the 1920s http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ukrainian/dictionary.html
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One might want shoes and wind up with choke cherries. Yikes! We used to live next door to Russian immigrants. As one grandfather stood next to a ladder he kept pointing at his shoes and saying "ladder". It took me several minutes before I discerned that he wanted to know how to pronounce the word for the product from which his shoes were made.
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Yes, I know "Russia isn't the same as Ukraine."
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My beloved Bobcia used to refer to her neighbor lady as "moya negsdorka"!
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Originally posted by Pavloosh:
My beloved Bobcia used to refer to her neighbor lady as "moya negsdorka"! VERY cute!  Alice
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And we Americans thought we had the cornor on slang. Now we know where we got it from
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Sounds as wacky a the "Spanglish" dialect out in the Western US! Where I work ,I often hear a mixture of Spanglish (Mexican/Spanish-English) sometimes mixed with Russian! Or even hearing Russians speaking English with some "Spanglish" tossed in. We have a large Russian and Spanish population in our workplace. Steve
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Wow, I heard a lot of those words and used a lot of them growing up. AND I AM NOT THAT OLD!!! LOL Being first generation Ukrainian born in the states, I tended to "Ukrainian-ize" a lot of words. Still do as a matter of fact. I bet we could all come up with a lot more. Deweydecimal
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How about "Nu ta Shuurrr!"
That's AngloUkrainian for "Of Course!"
And this one?
When I asked where do you live, the response was "na Susnahaydzia Evanyew". That turned out to be "Susquehanna Avenue".
Yes we could write a book about all those wonderful Ukrainians and Rusyns. God Bless them all!
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But have you noticed with the new wave of immigrants that we have tried to pick up all the "new" vocabulary they are using now in Ukraine? Ukrainian words I had never heard until they had arrived but now are very common and cool to use. I love how the vocabulary changes.... what Ukrainian we speak is like what our parents/grandparents spoke.. ... even the accent is a little different I think. But we all still understand one another. Deweydecimal
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Xpucmoc Bockpece Good Morning from Canada My favourite comes from western Canada. All Ukrainians love AA!!!  "AA" as in alchoholic annonymus? no, no, as in football Admenton Askinos  for you Amreicans ( Edmonton Eskimos) Have a good day Nycholaij
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Dear Friends,
Yes, but a lot of the words there ARE true Ukrainian words . . .
AND many of those words are so ingrained in our people here that one cannot change them . . .
For example, even the word "Letovishche" is a creation by the immigrants - it means "airport" and the literary Ukrainian word is "aeroport."
But if you correct someone, they'll say you are trying to impose the Russified Ukrainian of the soviet era . . .
They used to call the Redemptorists - the "Dentrists."
And to quit your job is to "Skvituvaty robotu."
Many words are also borrowed from Polish.
Chest!
Alex
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