Amazing stories about the words of various. Babenko V.

The book of Vitaly Babenko, a writer, head of the Department of Journalism of the Institute of Journalism and Literary Creativity, but also a teacher of etymology - talks about the most ordinary words. Using them, we do not think that the history of each word is full of paradoxes. It was such stories that compiled a book - not a dictionary, not a scientific research, but a collection of unheard of stories about heard words. The author, as a detective, goes from a solution to a solution. Well, it would seem surprising in the words “bus”, “time”, “sky”, “career” and others that are described in the book? And they, as it turns out, has a very intricate origin. In many cases, a way of forming a word , changes in the original meaning, a strange connection of the components, amazing connections with other words can cause a smile.