On 11/9/2010 5:21 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
Leaving aside Cotty's sick humor (or in Cotty's case sic humour) ... the
common name for the device in the U.S. is "slide".
The word "slide" thus is both a noun to name the device and a verb to
describe what is done on it.
More formally it is a "playground slide".
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Playground_slide2.jpg
Thanks, John. Russian word comes from the word (little) "mountain" so
that the kid is sliding down the mountain, so to say. That's why I had
hard time coming up with English term.
Boris
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