"Journey into the Word" is an extraordinarily fascinating book by Eduard Vartanian, telling about the life of words – about their origin (etymology), modification over time, the emergence of new meanings… After all, the Russian language, which was spoken a hundred or two hundred years ago, is very different from the modern one. How do new words arise? Where do borrowings come from? What are phraseological units and why do they want "neither fluff nor feather"? Who came up with the word "million" and why are dumplings called that? The author will tell us about all this and much more.For middle school age.