# The opposite of "Concordeski"—what would Russians call an American version/ripoff of a Russian thing?

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> [@Francis\_Vaughan](#):
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> The suffix “orama”. It seemed to creep into everything for a time. I assume is was derived from “panorama”,

I have a vague memory that there’s a Balzac novel where that becomes a craze among the residents of a boarding house - well before movies, but at the time when massive painted panorama or diorama displays were all the go.

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