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From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
Subject: Re: A gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a pack of wolves...
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jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt) writes:
: >Isn't "robot" from the Slavic root for "worker".
: 
: Actually, I believe it is from the Russian word "rabotnik" == worker, in
: which case why not "a soyuz of robots" or "a union of robots."
Adding to my last pedantic post:
if you write "rabotnik" you should write "sayuz".
Same before-stress o changing to a.
Tim
