I'll have the hedgehog, please.
In the early days of my Russian studies, at the canteen in the faculty of Moscow State University where I was studying, I looked at the cabbage soup, which appeared to be the most appetising thing on the day's menu and grappling for a word which I knew consisted of 2 letters, a vowel followed by something obscure and cyrillic, I managed to splutter "yozh, pozhaluista"... seconds later, as the lady with the laddle looked at me with deep confusion, I realised I had asked for "hedgehog"! The word I was in fact striving for, was shchee....
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