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

Mark Forsyth
3.95/5 (1868 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
241 pages
Publication:
2012
Publisher:
Icon Books
Edition:
Language:
en-GB
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B00KFEJJR6

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

Mark Forsyth
3.95/5 (1868 ratings)
Read Download
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.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
241 pages
Publication:
2012
Publisher:
Icon Books
Edition:
Language:
en-GB
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B00KFEJJR6

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