Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Quebecker

Russian translation:

квебекец

May 16, 2005 02:25
19 yrs ago
English term

Quebecker

English to Russian Art/Literary Other allusive term
Now an outsider has dared to join in. Digby Jones, head of the Confederation of British Industry, seeking to explain why Scotland’s economy is not doing too well, suggests that the Scots’ failure to welcome English investors is partly to blame. “Scots seem to have an enormous chip on their shoulder.”
He is right. But the odd thing is why they should have acquired it, or chosen to display it, so recently. Plenty of other peoples revel in the injustices done to them over the centuries: the Irish and Quebeckers have only recently emerged from aeons of resentment about their sufferings at the hands of others (i.e., the British), and the Serbs have yet to follow.
Proposed translations (Russian)
5 +8 квебекец
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Proposed translations

+8
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квебекец

житель провинции Квебек
Quebecker, native or inhabitant of Quebec
Однако премьер-министр Канады квебекец Жан Кретьен разоблачил этот блеф, заявив совершенно определенно, что отделение Квебека будет означать потерю всех ...
www.quebec.ru/articles_et_actualites/10.html - 23k
Peer comment(s):

agree Anneta Vysotskaya : ну а множественное "квебекцы" :-)
58 mins
спасибо Аннета
agree Larissa Dinsley
1 hr
спасибо Ларисса
agree Kirill Semenov
2 hrs
спасибо Кирилл
agree Ann Nosova : жители канадской провинции Квебек
3 hrs
Спасибо Анн
agree tanyazst
3 hrs
спасибо
agree Vladimir Vaguine
4 hrs
спасибо Владимир
agree Vladimir Dubisskiy : а как, собственно, иначе можно было назвать? :-))
4 hrs
спасибо Владимир
agree Ludwig Chekhovtsov : при желании можно бы назвать и иначе, например, квебекчанин (по типу полтавчанин, харьковчанин)
8 hrs
спасибо Людвиг
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