How English words change their meanings
Навеяно обсуждением слова wicked у eregwen
Книга самого начала века (XX-го :) ). Описывается некий нерадивый издатель древнеангийского текста:
[In his other works] he took the greatest liberties with the texts, correcting the style and spelling, inerpolating from other works, and committing such sins that a modern scholar has been moved to describe his editing as 'wicked' and 'fantastic'.
Книга самого начала века (XX-го :) ). Описывается некий нерадивый издатель древнеангийского текста:
[In his other works] he took the greatest liberties with the texts, correcting the style and spelling, inerpolating from other works, and committing such sins that a modern scholar has been moved to describe his editing as 'wicked' and 'fantastic'.