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Putty or putty - how to do it right
Putty or putty - how to do it right
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There will be fewer arguments over the pronunciation and spelling of the long-suffering word.

Putty or putty - how to do it right
Putty or putty - how to do it right

Why the confusion arises

Because we have borrowings before us.

Max Fasmer in the "Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language" writes that the words spadel and spatula originated from the Polish szpadel and szpatel (spatula) or from the German Spadel and Spatel (a surgeon's and pharmacist's tool). There are also given not two, but three variants of writing derivative words: putty, putty and putty.

Dahl's “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language”, which is unusual and no longer used in speech, along with puttying and puttying.

But in the "Dictionary of Church Slavonic and Russian Languages" of 1847, there are only variants with "k". Probably, the word tow could not be done without the participation of the word. Using tow, a coarse linen fiber, used to be used to fill up cracks and holes in the walls of the house. Tow, by the way, also came to us from Polish.

How to do it right: putty or putty

Now you can say putty and putty. Both words are in the newest "Russian spelling dictionary" Lopatin. True, the first is considered common, and the second is special, that is, characteristic of the speech of professionals. Therefore, in GOSTs, the material for filling irregularities is called just putty.

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