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Schumacher becomes an official Russian word
Sep.6 Michael Schumacher's extraordinary cultural reach has been underlined in Russia, where his surname has now officially entered an academic dictionary as a generic word for a racer or daredevil driver. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported that the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has added the Russian spelling of 'Schumacher' to its Akademos orthographic resource, with the definition 'of a racer, daredevil'. The surname had already been used colloquially in Russia since Schumacher's peak years to describe someone driving particularly fast or recklessly, but it has now been formally codified as a common noun. The timing is appropriate...
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