Dec 31, 2023
every once in a while i see ukrainians confused about борщ being spelled as borscht and trying to correct it to borshch instead, but the english name and spelling for it comes from yiddish באָרשט/borsht as it was ashkenazi jews that brought the dish to north america and popularized it in english-speaking world. so really there's nothing to correct, it's just natural linguistic evolution as a result of cultural exchange! i for one really like how the etymology shows the history of borsht :)
