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The Etymologicon

2012-10-02 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2012-10-02
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 798/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Etymologicon by : Mark Forsyth

Download or read book The Etymologicon written by Mark Forsyth. This book was released on 2012-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history.

The Horologicon

2013-10-01 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2013-10-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Horologicon written by Mark Forsyth. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Elements of Eloquence

2016-11-03 English language
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Release : 2016-11-03
Genre : English language
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 728/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Elements of Eloquence by : Mark Forsyth

Download or read book The Elements of Eloquence written by Mark Forsyth. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. 'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric ... Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully.' David Marsh, Guardian. Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as 'To be or not to be' and 'Bond. James Bond.' In his inimitably entertaining and witty style, he takes apart famous quotations and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde or John Lennon. Crammed with tricks to make the most humdrum sentiments seem poetic or wise, The Elements of Eloquencereveals how writers through the ages have turned humble words into literary gold - and how you can do the same.

The Unknown Unknown

2014-09-04 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-09-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 93X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Unknown Unknown by : Mark Forsyth

Download or read book The Unknown Unknown written by Mark Forsyth. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop. Along the way he considers the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld, naughty French photographs, why Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy would never have met online, and why only a bookshop can give you that precious thing - what you never knew you were looking for.

The Etymologicon and the Horologicon

2013-11-07
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Release : 2013-11-07
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Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Etymologicon and the Horologicon by : Mark Forsyth

Download or read book The Etymologicon and the Horologicon written by Mark Forsyth. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on 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.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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