Re: Spooks in Red Re: Terrain - Chenille?

In a message dated 9/14/99 8:43:12 PM Central Daylight Time,
devans@uneb.edu 
writes:

<< 
 By the way, the Russian for comrade ends in shcha, a diphthong
 that has both the sh and ch sound. It'd be 'tovarishch'.
 Honest, never worked for CIA or MKVD or... Well, there was...
 
  >>

Just tried to spell it easily. Actually in their alphabet it ends in a
single 
letter that looks like a flat-bottomed "w" with a tail on the right
which 
stands for the sound "shch" like ending in "fresh cheese". Unfortunately
I do 
not have cyrillic on my keyboard - it would look bad if the FBI
confiscated 
my computer. And "once upon a time . . . "