Naughty words. Babenko V.T.

Vitaly Babenko - writer, translator, book publisher, teacher, head of the Department of Journalism of the Institute of Journalism and Literary Creativity (2003–2021).

“Naughty words” - a book about words that seem to be rebellious, But at the same time they willingly become known if, of course, to listen carefully to them. The history of each word is full of paradoxes. Their paths are tidy, bizarre, intricate... The author, like a detective, goes from a solution to a solution. Meetings with “unfamiliar acquaintances” - everyday words - and compiled the case of the book. Who would have thought that the words “heel” and “jacket”, “bull” and “bee”, “cabbage” and “hat” have a common origin?

In the book of Vitaly Babenko, such examples cannot be counted. She about how words are born, live, move from language to tongue, collide, diverge to suddenly come into the world - with new meanings and new meanings. And this gives an amazing diversity to our magical, virtuoso Russian language.