[(The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language)] [Author: Mark Forsyth] published on (September, 2013)
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Mark Forsyth (author)
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...
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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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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
8601400276938
ASIN: B00G1G9BPC
Publish date: 2013-09-05
Publisher: Icon Books LTD
Edition language: English
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I absolutely love Mark Forsyth's books and this one was the last one I had of his to read. Its focus in on the lost words of the English language and he's broken it down into a parody, of sorts, of a book of hours. We start at 6 a.m. and learn about the words applicable to dawn and waking up, then...
Excellent fun that I dipped in and out of until I finished, half the words I will never remember but it's interesting to know that they exist.
bookshelves: fradio, radio-4, winter-20122013, nonfiction, published-2012 Read from November 30 to December 08, 2012 BOTWThe Etymologicon was last year's surprise runaway bestseller. The author has now assembled The Horologicon, or book of hours, to delight his audience with a feast of words app...
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