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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Re: Re: excessive quoting
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:31:31 +1000
As in Bolshoi Ballet (is there a Menshoi?). It was a nice piece of PR 
as when the Russian revolutionary socialist party split (1903?), the 
Bolsheviks under Lenin were actually in the minority, the smaller 
group. Their ideas were bigger though.
AndrewF

On 07/09/2004, at 6:27 PM, Piers Hemy wrote:

>
> Bolshy surely derives from bolshevik, and has the meaning difficult, 
> but
> Russian 'bolshoi' does mean big/great/major, and is itself the root of
> Russian 'bolshevik' (meaning a member of the majority, vs 'menshevik', 
> a
> member of the minority).
>
> Piers
>
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>
> --snip
>
> Some words in the glossary seem not to fit the analysis - I'm sure that
> rozzer for cop predates the movie, bolshy did and does not mean 'great'
> but difficult (perjorative truncation of Bolshevik)
>
> --snip
>
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