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The Horologicon

The Horologicon

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

by Mark Forsyth
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/09/2013

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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.
ISBN:
9781848315983
9781848315983
Category:
Language: history & general works
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-09-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x19mm
Weight:
0.26kg
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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