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Get/Have a Charlie horse word gerrymander. Governor Gerry’s name was pronounced with a hard g, and in the nineteenth century gerrymander was likewise pronounced with a hard g. However, by analogy with the common name Jerry (sometimes spelled Gerry), this word is now almost always pronounced with a soft g, and is sometimes even spelled jerrymander. The word was first found in 1812. Get/Have a Charlie horse – ногу свело; судорога (болезненный мышечный спазм) Develop a cramp in the arm or leg, usually from strain. A Charley horse or Charlie horse is a popular North American colloquial term for painful spasms or cramps in the leg muscles. Such an injury is known in the United Kingdom, United States, and many Commonwealth countries as a “dead leg”, “granddaddy”, or “chopper”. In Australia it is also known as a corked thigh or “corky.” It often occurs in sports when an athlete’s limb moves in a way it shouldn’t, in a manner like the kick of a horse, perhaps the reason for its name. The condition is common among hockey players. The term may date back to American slang of the 1880s, possibly from the pitcher Charlie “Old Hoss” Radbourn who is said to have suffered from cramps: Don’t work too hard or you’ll get a Charlie horse. Gibson Girl – девушка Гибсона, идеальная молоденькая американка конца XIX века The Gibson Girl was the personification of a feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen-and-inkillustrated stories created by Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States. Some people argue that the Gibson Girl was the first national standard for feminine beauty. For the next two decades, Gibson’s fictional images were extremely 60