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Title: THE ETYMOLOGICON
A CIRCULAR STROLL THROUGH THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
By: Mark Forsyth
Format: Hardback

List price: £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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