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omissions are brought to our notice, we will be happy to include

appropriate acknowledgements on reprinting, and in any subsequent

edition .

We thank Penguin Books for permission to reproduce the English

translation of an extract from Pushkin’s poem that is given in

section 2.11.

We also warmly thank the following: Tatiana Dimoglo, for material

on neologisms and orthography and for general linguistic advice; Elena Gogolitsyna, for material and advice on contemporary slang and

computing terminology; Yurii Gogolitsyn for his invaluable technical assistance; John Steeds, FRS, for his help with translation of the

passage on physics reproduced at 2.5; Helen Barton of Cambridge

University Press for her guidance and for her prompt and patient

responses to all our queries; Kay McKechnie for her careful reading of the typescript and the many improvements that she introduced at the

copy-editing stage; and Alison Powell of Cambridge University Press

for overseeing production of the book. For any mistakes,

misapprehensions and imperfections of presentation that might remain in spite of the best efforts of all who have helped us in various ways we ourselves accept sole responsibility.

DO, NG,

Bristol, August 2004

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