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Forsyth Mark
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Автор: Forsyth Mark Жанр: Icon books ltd Год: 2012 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132017-08-24
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What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organized crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Автор: Forsyth Mark Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, READ BY HUGH DENNIS The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
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