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[Opinions] Re: Ilya, and some other Russian names
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So Olga's old womanish in Croatia too? :P I think it has a permanent old-witch stereotype here.Wow, I wouldn't have made the connection between Gavril and Gavrilo Princip in a bazillion years. Thanks for pointing that out to me.Alix for Anastasia is interesting! I like Alix a lot also. How is it pronounced how you are saying it? I'm saying it almost identically to Alex.LOL Afanasiy I love its awkwardness. It makes me feel like I'm chewing on a stress ball or something.Thanks!
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Here Alix is 'Ah-lee-ks' and Alex is 'Ah-leh-ks'.Yup, Olga, Vera, etc. are very old woman-ish here. Like Ethel, Mabel, etc. in US/UK.
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