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Trivia: the Polish word "cuda" means "miracles", "zluda" ("złuda") means "a delusion". Nice pun.

• antjanus 6y ago
  I'm Czech and under the dialect where I grew up, "Zluda" could be translated to "evil person/monster" or "mischievous person/monster". Growing up, people sometimes called their kids "zludy" (plural of "zluda" in my language) -- or trouble-makers.
  • hackyhacky 6y ago
    Interesting. Possibly a variant of the standard word zrůda?
    • antjanus 6y ago
      Yeah, could be! I grew up close to the polish/slovak/czech border. I bet some of those words got mixed together.
• neolog 6y ago
  Off topic...I heard that a common Polish swear-word is "cholera", because the disease is so bad. Is that true?
  • ols 6y ago
    It is.
  • aphroz 6y ago
    Same in Dutch, they use disease names such as cancer or typhus as bad words