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The Horologicon A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Paperback • 2013 • English

The Horologicon A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

By Mark Forsyth

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About the book

ETYMOLOGY. 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 f...Show more

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9781848315983

Publisher

Icon Books, Limited

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

The Horologicon A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Format

Paperback

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