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

Forsyth, Mark

 
9781785781711: The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785781715 ISBN 13: 9781785781711
Verlag: Icon Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.

'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting' Roland White, Sunday Times.

Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully eccentric day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.

From uhtceare in the hours before dawn through to dream drumbles at bedtime, The Horologicon gives you the extraordinary lost words you never knew you needed.

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). A Radio 4 Book of the Week, The Horologicon is an eye-opening, page-turning celebration of the English language at its most endearingly arcane.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 at blog.inkyfool.com.

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Verlag
Icon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785781715
ISBN 13 
9781785781711
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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