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

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

by Mark Forsyth
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark ForsythAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-10-01Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780425264379ISBN-10:425264378UPC:9780425264379Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, ReferenceBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Word Lists, LiteracyBook Topic:EtymologySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC7B1TDBJ7
From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them.

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780425264379ISBN-10:425264378UPC:9780425264379Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, ReferenceBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Word Lists, LiteracyBook Topic:EtymologySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC7B1TDBJ7
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist, proofreader, ghostwriter, and pedant. He was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. He is the creator of The Inky Fool, a blog about words, phrases, grammar, rhetoric, and prose. He lives in the UK.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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