R is for Robot
R is for Robot, surprisingly from the Czech, a word meaning 'a machine resembling a human being'. It was popularised by the playwright Karel Capek from his play R.U.R. in 1920. Certainly one of the most interesting discoveries while I was researching words for my A to Z.
Interesting. We think of our imported words coming mainly from Romance languages, though I suppose 'recent' imports have come from the Russian language.
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