Description: 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! AUTHOR: Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. Every job he's ever had, whether as a ghost-writer or proof-reader or copy-writer, has been to do with words. He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost every day. The blog has received worldwide attention and enjoys an average of 4,000 hits per week.
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EAN: 9781785781704
UPC: 9781785781704
ISBN: 9781785781704
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Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Author: Forsyth, Mark
Book Title: The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hi
Item Height: 2 cm
Item Length: 19.8 cm
Item Weight: 0.18 kg
Item Width: 12.9 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Icon Books
