Casting mis-steps

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Miles" <d2dmiles at ...> wrote:


> Wictionary identifys "gard" as a slavic word for town or city.


zanooda:

No, this is a mistake :-). There is no "gard" in Slavic languages, but there is "grad" - this is an abbreviated form of the word "gorod", which in fact means "town" or "city". It is often used in the names of the towns - Volgograd, Stalingrad, Leningrad etc. :-).