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

HardCover. Pub Date :2012-11-01 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Icon Books BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. READ BY HUGH DENNIS 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 youre philogrobolized. Pretending to work Thats 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.Read More

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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.

  • Blackwell

    Mark Forsyth's bestselling day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words, in paperback for the first time The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to...

  • Waterstones

    The Horologicon - which means 'a book of things appropriate to each hour - follows a day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.

  • 1848314159
  • 9781848314153
  • Mark Forsyth
  • 1 November 2012
  • Icon Books Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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