Larry Trask: Why Do Languages Change?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 210) Аннотация: The first recorded English name for the make-up we now call blusher was paint, in 1660. In the 1700s a new word, rouge, displaced paint, and remained in standard usage for around two centuries. Then, in 1965, an advertisement coined a new word for the product: blusher. Each generation speaks a little differently, and every language is constantly changing. It is not only words that change, every…