I know enough Russian to know that
But is it possible that the very lazy clerk filling in the paperwork had an off-moment and wrote the lazy version? I know I used to do it a lot ;)
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Mrs Trellis GIN,
Mon 16 Mar 2009, 8:32,
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Me neither
But then they think 'Sasha' is short for Alexander
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Mrs Trellis GIN,
Mon 16 Mar 2009, 8:46,
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True
The Scots 'shorten' Nigel to the name Sandy quite a lot too!
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Anthropos Was making beer on,
Mon 16 Mar 2009, 8:51,
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