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emperor; king; monarch; ruler; czar (рекомендуется употреблять tsar – Oxford Guide to English Usage. Usage Note: The word czar can also be spelled tsar. Czar is the most common form in American usage and the one nearly always employed in the extended senses "any tyrant" or informally, "one in authority." But tsar is preferred by most scholars of Slavic studies as a more accurate transliteration of the Russian and is often found in scholarly writing with reference to one of the Russian emperors. AHD Alexander Demidov) |
