Back from Poland, my first foray back there as a businessman – or, as they say in that part of the Europe even for one such – biznesmen.

A linguistic quirk. Many Slavic nouns have a feminine form. So as well as appropriating the word biznesmen, many Slavs informally call a female businessperson a biznesmenka.

From what I saw of Warsaw and Lodz, Poland is whirring away well. Lodz is a city transformed in the past few years, as its fine collection of wonderful