Word: prutkov
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...paneling and stained-glass windows (not to say cobwebs), and Professor MacAndrew's new version is brisk and straightforward. A typical Garnett phrase like "bother the fellow" has become "the hell with him." And those elaborate patronymics have disappeared, so that Tatyana Pavlovna is now simply Mrs. Prutkov. But in his effort to be up-to-date, MacAndrew also afflicts us with such colloquialisms as "know-how" and "twerp." Mrs. Garnett's simple statement, "Don't be angry, Prince, I'll leave you," turns into "Take it easy, Prince, I'll make myself scarce...
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