Dispatches from the World Cup

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Match 3 in a couple of hours. My 'hood has gone yellow and green.

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The End wrote: My 'hood has gone yellow and green.


You can get an ointment for that. :)
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The End wrote: My 'hood has gone yellow and green.


You can get an ointment for that. :)

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The 5-7 minutes of flags, music, anthems is the best I've ever experienced at football. The way the huge teardrop flags explode into life is fantastic.

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Potentially the Brazilian end.

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Animated chap being interviewed by TeleMundo.

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Out-of-place, unusually-shaped Mexican.

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A quartet of Chinese Neymars, one of which looks like he's about to take a dive...

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Moscow en route to Nizhny Novgorod the morra.
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The End wrote:The 5-7 minutes of flags, music, anthems is the best I've ever experienced at football. The way the huge teardrop flags explode into life is fantastic.
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Norn Iron chap in my local, Bas! Not just for show, proper weirdy baldy head and sense of perpledexness.

EDIT - two of them!

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Quality pics there, EndO.
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Plus a thousand, Endo!

Loving the pics and long may the reign!

P.S What's the official pronunciation of Nizhny Novgorod? Heard about twenty attempts at it. I go with ''Neh-zssh-nay Nov-goh-rohd."

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The End wrote:Norn Iron chap in my local, Bas! Not just for show, proper weirdy baldy head and sense of perpledexness.

EDIT - two of them!

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kevin04 wrote:What's the official pronunciation of Nizhny Novgorod?
In Cyrilic it's Нижний Нoвгород. Usually the letters only have one sound when spoken, but there are always exceptions to confuse the issue. It's pronounced Nizh-nyer Nov-ge-red.
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Asked the missus. NIZSH-nee NOV-goh-rod

Ask soneone else, they'll say different. Accent and dialect does exist here.

Saint Petersburg? Sonkt-PEETER-burhhh.
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kevin04 wrote:What's the official pronunciation of Nizhny Novgorod?
In Cyrilic it's Нижний Нoвгород. Usually the letters only have one sound when spoken, but there are always exceptions to confuse the issue. It's pronounced Nizh-nyer Nov-ge-red.

That's really not correct (she says)
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Course, she is from a city called Tyumen, of which I have heard five different pronunciations.
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The End wrote:That's really not correct (she says)
Fair enough, although by and large, if you want to know how to pronounce Russian words look up the Cyrillic spelling. Is it Moss-coe or Moss-cow; neither, it's Moss-kvah :-) There's certainly (as far as I know) nothing like what you might call the rough/plough/cough situation you get in English.
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