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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: Canadian French?
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Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 21:32:56 GMT
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Ochlocrat <ocrat@netcom.ca> writes:

>A few years ago, "stop" was officially sanctioned by the
>Office de la Langue Francaise.  So right now, some stop signs
>say, "Arret / Stop", some just "Arret", and some just "Stop".

The Russian for "Stop" is "Ostanovites'".  I used to wonder how they
got all that on a stop sign.  At last I saw, in a picture, that they
use STOP (in Russian letters, of course).  Very practical.
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        Joe Fineman             jcf@world.std.com
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