Maria Aksyonova is well known as the author and publisher of the Encyclopedia for Children Avant +, the author and host of the popular television program Do Russians Know Russian? She is an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, laureate of the Presidential Prize in the field of education. Speaking our native language is as natural for us as breathing. But how well do we know Russian? Stories about the origin of words are more fascinating than any novel and more mysterious than any detective. Before you are amazing adventures of words. Why is the press "yellow" and the market "flea"? How did the word "fake" appear in the meaning of "fake"? Why did the crow - a bird that certainly will not miss its own, or even someone else's - become a symbol of rotozeism? Is youth jargon good or bad? "Put on" or "put on"? "Go" or "go out"? "Eat" or "eat"? We endlessly correct and pull each other. But how to say it? What mistakes do we "catch" from radio and television most often? And what other Pushkin worked on? It is difficult to speak Russian flawlessly. The most literate people make mistakes. The main thing is to try to correct them, comprehend the logic of the language, be interested in its history and endlessly enjoy its beauty.