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in reply to a message by Inspector Javert
Lavra exists as a proper noun in Russian, referring to a kind of monastery, and thus doesn't really have the right sort of associations to end up being given as a forename, I would suppose. Male Lavrenty (Lawrence) exists, coming from the same Greek root, but I've never seen a female cognate.
I lived in Russia for seven years or so and now work as a translator, and this Chappy thingy sounds very un-Russian to me.
I lived in Russia for seven years or so and now work as a translator, and this Chappy thingy sounds very un-Russian to me.
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So Chapeka is definitely not a Russian name. At least not one that would be commonly used. But why would a seemingly-reputable source put up something so...wrong?
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You know, there are a lot of mistakes even in this site. The half of these supposedly Russian names are not used or never existed in Russia. As regards this I wrote to creaters of this site for correcting the name list.
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