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Re: Sirba

"Michel Borzykowski" <borzykowski (at) infomaniak(dot)ch> wrote:

A question about the SIRBA: Has this dance anything to do with the SERBIA (the 
country) ?

Yes, at least that in Romanian, it means Serbian. My favorite 
translation of the word sarba (pre- and post-Communist orthography)
appears on a 1950s American bootleg: "Serbian Lady, Be Ready."

Paul Gifford

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