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Old 11-22-2010, 03:59 AM   #72
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Originally Posted by Fien View Post
... the co-cockroach. Nice word, btw. Almost as nice as the Dutch word for roach. For the benefit of the few non-Dutch participants in the crawlthrough (Pollo and Origami are Dutch too): it's kakkerlak.
For the collectors of terms in various languages:
in Serbian cockroach is бубашваба/bubašvaba [it means "German* bug" (or rather "Bug German"), and it's pronounced (something like) "boobashvabba"].

Thanks for more titles, Fien! Keep them coming.

* "German" here is a noun, not an adjective.
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