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| Biro--This refers to the ballpoint pen, invented by Mr. Laszlo Biro (below). |
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| Hungarian Words in English |
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| English has borrowed words from most languages over the centuries. Can you guess which words we have borrowed from Hungarian? |
| Check the boxes of those words which you believe may have come into English: |
| Pushka--This refers to a kind of telephone exchange, named after the famous Hungarian inventor, Tivadar Puskas |
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| Goulash--This refers not only to a food, but to any strange mixture of many different elements: diverse mix, jumble, |
| a round in bridge played with hands produced by a redistribution of previously dealt cards. |
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| Hello--This greeting, perhaps the most common on Earth, is really Hungarian! When Tivadar Puskas uttered his famous |
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| first words over the telephone, "Hallom, hallom!" they were misinterpereted as a greeting. |
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| Paprika--The typical Hungarian coniment have crept its way into the English language via American palates. Yum! |
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| Silard-- a unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material, named after the Hungarian inventor, Leo Szilard. |
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| Coach--A wagon, bus, or trainer. |
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| Hussar--A hussar is, well, a husszar. |
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| Ruzika--any of a group of alicyclic ketones with 9 to over 30 carbon atoms. Named after Leopold Ruzicka (b. 9/3/1887 Vukov�r, Hungary [now Croatia] - d. 1976) who invented the stuff for perfumes. |
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