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Old February 21, 2008   #18
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Carolyn,
there are at least 2 different ways to spell one Cyrillic word in English with Latin letters. Germans use the same Latin letters but spell Cyrillic letters differently so you will get at least another 2 ways of spelling from Russian to German. That's why Reinhard and Mannfred have so many varieties from former Soviet Union countries but with the special German kind of spelling, for example.

As for Ephiopea and Ephiopeans as one the most known black for Soviets I see it under education exchange prism. There is a well-known University in Moscow called Peoples' Friendship Univercity of Russia (http://www.pfu.edu.ru/en/). They have been giving a great education with a wide professional scale to so many foreign students (especially from Africa). So I think there were a plenty of Ethiopeans there and Soviet people associate blacks with Ethiopeans much even if they usually have mild black skin
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