Glory to the Family! Etymology of Russian Life

The creativity of Mikhail Zadornov has long surpassed the boundaries of satire and humor. His interests are diverse: numerology, history, the etymology of Russian life, and endless investigations into the origins of words.
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.How to learn to understand the original meaning of familiar words, to hear the natural quiver of one's native language? Perhaps some will find it sufficient to read Mikhail Zadornov's autobiographical story about how, as a young journalist, he traveled to Siberia to write an essay about the Old Believers and met a witch in the taiga.
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.A lot of time has passed since then. The author traveled around the world, listened to our speech and that of other peoples. He conducted research, sat in archives. Invoking people to glorify their kin, Mikhail Nikolaevich shares amazing things about the origins of simple words: dad, mom, grandmother, aunt — and riddle-like words for the current young generation: daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law.
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.In this book, you will find captivating interpretations of Russian fairy tales and familiar calendar holidays. You will hear what the letters of our alphabet will whisper, and you will feel pride in your native speech upon discovering that the English language is a corrupted form of Russian.