'Linguistic Detectives' is a guide to the amazing and mysterious world of our great language. Why is something or someone called this or that? Where was this or that word born? Was it always written the way it is now? In his book, the author not only gives detailed answers to the most unexpected questions from the field of linguistics, but also tells in a fascinating form about the meaning, structure and origin of words, phrases and 'difficult lines' from the works of Russian classics. You can read the stories about words in any order that is convenient for you!

In the book: - words and word communities; - phraseological units; - fiction; - analysis of a word by composition; - what is inside a word; - linguistic noises and interference; - assignments and tests.