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From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Re: All yours, Babooshka, Babooshka, Babooshka-ya-ya
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Date: 26 Aug 89 03:29:48 GMT
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Really-From: wisner@mica.berkeley.edu (William Wisner)

It seemed obvious to me the first time I ever heard _Babooshka_. I had always
thought of the word babooshka as a Russian endearment. I also thought that the
idea that the word is a Russian endearment could be nothing but a Western myth.
I've never had a chance to ask a Russian, though..