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- Published: 2021-02-11T06:19:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T09:27:43.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Science

The poem "The Fashionable Wife" by the Russian sentimentalist poet Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (1760-1837) appeared in three versions during his lifetime. And three times the form of the adjective "English" changed in it.

In the first, in 1792, we read:  
"And from her it's only three paces  
To the Anglish shop."

By 1803 Dmitriev had made a correction and printed:  
"And from her it's only three paces  
To the Anglin shop."

*Literal translation*

In the 1804 publication we find a form close to the modern one:  
"And from her it's only three paces to the Anglian shop"

*Literal translation*

Thus the language of the eighteenth century, with its obsolete norms, quietly and without undue ceremony turned into the modern Russian we know so well.