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And awkward as hell too. Maccheroni is a shape of pasta, but apparently all pasta is "enriched macaroni" in the US?



Kiełbasa and Pierogi are whole classes of products but in US kiełbasa is a particular kind of Polish sousage and pierogi basically means ruskie pierogi.

That's how foreign languages work. In Polish "rower" means "a bicycle" because british company Rover sold them here first :) In Russian and Ukrainian vogzal means "train station" because there was a famous train station in Vauxhal :)


Another fun one: the word for "marker" (i.e., a felt-tipped pen for drawing) is "фломастер," from the brand Flo-Master.

Although, given the way things are going, it wouldn't surprise me if the word was now "шарпи."

Surprisingly, the art supply brand Caran d'Ache is from the Russian "карандаш" and not vice versa.

The Ukrainian for "pencil" simply comes from the word for the metal tin, which, like lead metal, was in use for styluses used in drawing before the discovery of graphite.


In Polish: "flamaster" (thin marker for writing) vs "marker" (thick semitransparent marker for highlighting text).

And pencil is "ołówek" (ołów = lead).


>In Polish "rower" means "a bicycle" because british company Rover sold them here first

Wait really?! I'm learning Polish and I was wondering about this.


>In Russian and Ukrainian vogzal means "train station" because there was a famous train station in Vauxhal

You can't be serious. Post proof.


There's competing theories but all come from Vauxhall. Either train station or gardens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall#In_the_Russian_langua...


Thanks


"Macaroni" is a very old synonym for "pasta". It used to have a different broader meaning than the shape.


In (Brazilian) Portuguese, all pasta is called "macarrão", no doubt from the old Italian word


To add a couple more examples; in polish "Makaron" is all pasta (same as above), while in German "Nudeln" (noodles) is also synonymous with all pasta (even maccaroni!).


E.g. the French "macaron" comes from this Italian word.


Probably a case of semantic narrowing.


Yes. Spaghetti is a type of enriched macaroni, according to the FDA.




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