The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Autor Mark Forsythen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2016
Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully eccentric day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.
Fromuhtcearein the hours before dawn through to dreamdrumblesat bedtime,The Horologicongives you the extraordinary lost words you never knew you needed.
Wake up feeling rough? Then you’rephilogrobolized. Pretending to work? That’sfudgelling(which may lead torizzlingif you feel sleepy after lunch). A Radio 4 Book of the Week,The Horologiconis an eye-opening, page-turning celebration of the English language at its most endearingly arcane.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781785781711
ISBN-10: 1785781715
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1785781715
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
'A
delightfully
eccentric
…
illuminating
new
book.'
'Whether you are out on the pickaroon or ogo-pogoing for a bellibone, The Horologicon is a lexical lamppost.'
'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting.'
'Whether you are out on the pickaroon or ogo-pogoing for a bellibone, The Horologicon is a lexical lamppost.'
'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting.'
Notă biografică
Born
in
London
in
1977,
Mark
Forsyth
(a.k.a
The
Inky
Fool)
was
given
a
copy
of
the
Oxford
English
Dictionary
as
a
christening
present
and
has
never
looked
back.
His
book
The
Etymologicon
was
a
Sunday
Times
No.
1
Bestseller,
and
his
TED
Talk
'What's
a
snollygoster?'
has
had
more
than
half
a
million
views.
He
has
also
written
a
specially
commissioned
essay
'The
Unknown
Unknown:
Bookshops
and
the
Delight
of
Not
Getting
What
You
Wanted'
for
Independent
Booksellers
Week
and
the
introduction
for
the
new
edition
of
the
Collins
English
Dictionary.
He
lives
in
London
with
his
dictionaries,
and
blogs
at
blog.inkyfool.com.