Vitaly Vladimirovich Sundakov - about the moon and the month agree, it's a little strange every time, friends, what we do is this: sometimes we call the moon the moon, sometimes we call it a month. So, I will tell you, actually, the moon and the month are not the same thing at all. Initially, in Russian, the moon was not called a month, and the month, in turn, was never called a moon. The moon is called a moon only from the day of the new moon to the day of the full moon. That's all. We call a new moon a tiny, right convex, small bracket that appears in the sky in the west, where the sun has just sunk below the horizon. This is the beginning of the visibility of the moon in the sky. Then we continue to count the days of the moon: the second day of the moon, the third day, the fourth and so on. The moon becomes thicker and thicker, a wide bracket, protruding to the right, farther and farther away from the sun. Then the moon completely ceases to look like a bracket and shines like an irregular ellipse. We see twelve days in a row, twelve phases of the aging moon. So my friends, this aging moon is not called a month! The waning moon is called the waxing moon, and the waxing moon is also called the waning moon but not this month! Around the fifteenth day of the moon, a thin dark crescent appears on its right side. The moon on the right appears to be slightly missing. That is, the edge of the moon pancake on the right is slightly burnt, dark so dear, this darkest edge on the right side of the moon is called the month! Please pay special attention: that is, the month is not the bright part of the moon, but its dark and shadowy part. From the lessons of the Russian school of the Russian language.