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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Name for new Shuttle: Buran !
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Date: 2 Nov 88 19:09:41 GMT
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In article <899@etive.ed.ac.uk>, bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes:
> 
> The BBC also reported that the second soviet shuttle,
> currently still under construction, is called Ptichka.
> They gave the translation as Birdie.

Maybe just "bird"?

(Serbo-Croat and Russian aren't too far apart..."ptitsa" being
bird and "mali ptitsa" being "little bird ~= birdie" in S-C.
The initial p is not silent, btw.)

Maybe the application doesn't fit, my serbian being as rusty as
it is. :}