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Do you find it odd that the Russian word for popsicle is эскимо...pronounced eskimo?

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Posted - February 18, 2019
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  • 5835
    No. What I find odd is that the name of their favorite booze, vodka, is the endearing form of "water". The same is true in Scotland, where whiskey means "water of life".
      February 18, 2019 7:27 PM MST
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  • 6098
    In Scandinavia aquavit. Spices fermented in potato or grain alcohol. 
      February 18, 2019 7:29 PM MST
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  • Yes...I think there‘s Some weird German sex fetish involved in this nonsence.
      February 18, 2019 7:29 PM MST
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  • 44602
    Germans don't consider anything weird.
      February 19, 2019 7:22 AM MST
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  • True 
      February 19, 2019 7:27 AM MST
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  • 11102
    No I find it more like Russian sour grapes then odd. In the early years of the Cold war Russia wanted to claim the High Artic area so Canada forced/tricked 100 Inuit families to migrate and settle in the area before Russia did it and claimed that area as part of Russia. A lot of the Inuit's (eskimo) froze to death and maybe out of spite for not getting to claim that area the Russians started associating frozen eskimo's as popsicles. Cheers!    



     
      February 19, 2019 10:44 AM MST
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