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Item Details
Title:
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THE ETYMOLOGICON
A CIRCULAR STROLL THROUGH THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE |
By: |
Mark Forsyth |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1848313071 |
ISBN 13: |
9781848313071 |
Publisher: |
ICON BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
1 November, 2011 |
Pages: |
272 |
Description: |
The massive Christmas 2011 bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week |
Synopsis: |
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller'Not since Eats, Shoots & Leaves has a book about language attracted so much attention' Robert McCrum, ObserverWhat 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. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Icon Books Ltd |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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