Last month while I was dining with a few friends in Miami I inquired about this particular Russian word after finding out our waitress wasn’t from America. It started when one of the guys tried ordering a fish sandwich (thinking he had seen a fish sandwich on the menu), but there wasn’t any fish sandwich. When asked the waitress about this imaginary fish sandwich it confused the Dickens out of her. She did not understand. “Fish sandwich?” She quickly went to grab another waitress to help her compute, but after the fellahs realized there was no fish sandwich on the menu anywhere or on their daily specials they apologized and resorted to another dish. I asked her to tell me the word for ‘thank you’ in Russian and she kindly provided me with this:
Today’s word is a Russian word used in Russia:
spasiba – thank you
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Past Russian words: , shakzochniy, paka