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I usually spell it borscht, do they do it differently in the UK?
by monknomo 7y ago
I usually spell it borscht, do they do it differently in the UK?
- thaumasiotes 7y agoBorscht is also the name that I know (though as an American, I can't speak to the UK). "Borshch" is the orthographical equivalent to Russian Борщ and Dutch borsjtsj.
- icegore 7y agoExcept the fact that borscht (борщ) is originally a Ukrainian word not Russian.
- jfk13 7y agoI don't think so. I'm British and know it as "borscht"; I've never (consciously) seen "borshch" until now.
- em-bee 7y agothe comment was explaining which spelling would most closely resemble the original russian pronunciation. as some of the sister comments explain, borscht is the yiddish pronunciation
- Itaxpica 7y agoBorscht with a T is the Yiddish pronunciation, unlike Russian which drops the T. It's a more common spelling in areas that historically had a larger Eastern European Jewish population (like the US, where the "borscht" spelling extended out from New York).
- Shorel 7y agoBorscht is the pronunciation in Bulgarian of Борщ.