Winged names

The language we speak and write is living, and it is constantly changing: some words go out of use, others appear, and others change their meaning over time. And some names and expressions become popular - the book “Winged Names” by the famous writer and linguist Eduard Vartanyan tells about them. After reading this book, you will learn what the smile of augurs means, where the expression “The Moor did his job” came from, who the boibak is and what Trishkin’s caftan looked like, which classics of Russian literature mentioned more than once in their works. For middle school age.