Why not otherwise?

Lion Vasilyevich Asspensky is a classic of scientific and educational literature for children and young people, linguist, translator, writer by entertaining linguistics. "Word about the words"," Toponimics Riddles", "You and Your Name", "by law letters"," on the roads and paths of the language "" - many of these books were written in the 50s and 1960s of the 20th century, however They still have no importance to this day. Before you one of these books - why not otherwise? Etymological dictionary of schoolboy ". "It"s a little to understand what it means that or another word. A person, besides, wants to know why it means it is precisely this, and not something completely different. He takes it yes put - how did each word got his meaning where it came from ". The author tried to include in the dictionary "as many of the most ordinary schoolwords as possible:" Party "and" Pedagogue "," tool "and" Cheatna "," Physics "and" Chemistry "". You will learn about the origin of various words, get acquainted with the work of an ethiologist: With what difficulties he meets, to what tricks and tricks is resorting to their hunt for the ancestors of our words