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The Etymologicon

The Etymologicon

A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

by Mark Forsyth
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/11/2011
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What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised 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. A 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.
ISBN:
9781848313071
9781848313071
Category:
Language: history & general works
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-11-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Icon Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
204x138x27mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Mark Forsyth

Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back.

His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller, and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views.

He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary.

He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs

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