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

Author: Mark Forsyth

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Price : 29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781848314153
Publisher : Icon Books
Imprint : Icon Books
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Publication date : June 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 15mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : November 2012
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Dewey classification : 420.14
Reading Level : very good
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Pages : 256
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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.

Author description

Publication of The Etymologicon in late 2011 shot Mark Forsyth to huge acclaim, appearing on Channel 4, BBC 2 and countless Christmas bestseller lists. Follow Mark on Twitter.