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The Etymologicon

The Etymologicon

A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

by Mark Forsyth
Paperback
Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 03/01/2017
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A new cover look for the 5th anniversary of Mark Forsyth's brilliant Sunday Times Number One bestseller.

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 is all about 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.

It's become a classic of writing about the English language. If you're interested in etymology, you need to have read this book!

ISBN:
9781785781704
9781785781704
Category:
Historical & comparative linguistics
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-01-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Icon Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x20mm
Weight:
0.24kg
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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