So apparently Russian хлеб khleb “bread” is a loanword from Germanic, from a the ancestor of English loaf and German Laib.

I don’t think I would connected those three words off-hand. (Even though the English and German words at least mean the same thing! Perhaps because the word Laib is fairly rare in my speech; I usually talk about ein Brot ( Read more... )

I found a translation of the well-known "studies at an English university" text (as long as the first and last letter are correct, the rest of the letters can be jumbled up and you can still read it) in Russian:

По рзелульаттам илссеовадний одонго анлигйсокго
унвиертисета, не иеемт занчнеия, в кокам пряокде
рсапожолены бкувы в солве. Галвоне, чотбы ( Read more... )