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

From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird...
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Author: Mark Forsyth
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Forsyth, Mark

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

Dhs. 106.50

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

Dhs. 106.50
Author: Mark Forsyth
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them.

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

Author: Mark Forsyth
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780425264379
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2013
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2013
Library Journal 11/15/2013 pg. 113
New York Times Book Review 12/22/2013 pg. 19

About the Author
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist, proofreader, ghostwriter, and pedant. He was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. He is the creator of The Inky Fool, a blog about words, phrases, grammar, rhetoric, and prose. He lives in the UK.


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