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by sorokod 293 days ago
The dash in the spelling is unusual (according to books.google), also different languages tell different stories

Russian - looks like a hot topic at the start of WW2 :

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%D0%B3%D1%83%D...

German:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Guttapercha&ye...