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Great comment, rolig. I love bulyzhnik!
In Russian, the word for cobblestone is "bulyzhnik," a lovely roundish word that fits nicely in the hand of a revolutionary. In Slovene, the humble cobblestone is the more angular "tlakovec" (the final "c" is pronounced as "ts"), a word that still seems to carry the echoes of horse hooves and carriage wheels.
slow down, you move too fast
you got to make the morning last
just kicking down the cobble stones...
(Simon & Garfunkel)
These are downright obnoxious when they're too rounded; I can see why they went out of fashion.