...As best I can put it, I cannot find the word: Not quite ill, not quite well, but so... neither one thing nor the other... as though not herself, She says to her husband: "Listen, my life, I need a new outfit for the holiday: Pray buy a turban from Mada
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.
