ÿþ <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Ruslan Limited</TITLE> <style href>a {text-decoration: none}</style> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#0D1B61" link="#0D1B61" BGCOLOR="#D9E6EC" alink="#0D1B61" vlink="#0D1B61"> <B> RUSLAN 1</B> <BR> Foreign words <BR><BR> You can tell the gender of foreign words that have been imported into Russian by their endings, except for the word :>D5 which is masculine. This is believed to be because when the word was originally imported into Russian it was spelled :>D89, and nouns in -9 are masculine. </BODY>