Etymologicon A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

ISBN-10: 0425260798

ISBN-13: 9780425260791

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mark Forsyth

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Do you know why……a mortgage is literally a death pledge? …why guns have girls’ names? …why salt is related to soldier?You’re about to find out…The Etymologicon (e-t?-‘mä-lä-ji-kän) is:*Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensiveThe Etymologiconis a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.70" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

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 @inkyfool



Preface


A Turn-up for the Books


A Game of Chicken


Hydrogentlemanly


The Old and New Testicle


Parenthetical Codpieces


Suffering for my Underwear


Pans


Miltonic Meanders


Bloody Typical Semantic Shifts


The Proof of the Pudding


Susage Poison in your Face


Bows and Arrows and Cats


Black and White


Hat Cheque Point Charlie


Sex and Bread


Concealed Farts


Wool


Turkey


Insulting Foods


Folk Etymology


Butterflies of the World


Psychoanalysis and the Release of the Butterfly


The Villains of the Language


Two Executioners and a Doctor


Thomas Crapper


Mythical Acronyms


John the Baptist and the Sound of Music


Organic, Organised, Organs


Clipping


Buffalo


Antanaclasis


China


Coincidences and Patterns


Frankly, My Dear Frankfurter


Beastly Foreigners


Pejoratives


Ciao, Slave Driver


Robots


Terminators and Prejudice


Terminators and Equators


Equality in Ecuador


Bogeys


Bugbears and Bedbugs


Von Munchausen's Computer


SPAM (not spam)


Heroin


Morphing De Quincey and Shelley


Star-Spangled Drinking Songs


Torpedoes and Turtles


From Mount Vernon to Portobello Road with a Hangover


A Punch of Drinks


The Scampering Champion of the Champagne Campaign


Insulting Names


Peter Pan


Herbaceous Communication


Papa was a Saxum Volutum


Flying Peters


Venezuela and Venus and Venice


What News on the Rialto?


Magazines


Dick Snary


Autopeotomy


Water Closets for Russia


Fat Gunhilda


Queen Gunhilda and the Gadgets


Shell


In a Nutshell


The Iliad


The Human Body


The Five Fingers


Hoax Bodies


Bunking and Debunking


The Anglo-Saxon Mystery


The Sedge-Strewn Stream and Globalisation


Coffee


Cappuccino Monks


Called to the Bar


Ignorami


Fossil-less


The Frequentative Suffix


Pending


Worms and their Turnings


Mathematics


Stellafied and Oily Beavers


Beards


Islands


Sandwich Islands


The French Revolution in English Words


Romance Languages


Peripatetic Peoples


From Bohemia to California (via Primrose Hill)


California


The Hash Guys


Drugs


Pleasing Pslams


Biblical Errors


Salt


Halcyon Days


Dog Days


Cynical Dogs


Greek Education and Fastchild


Cybermen


Turning Trix


Amateur-Lovers


Dirty Money


Death Pledges


Wagering War


Strapped for Cash


Fast Bucks and Dead Ones


The Buck Steps here


Back to Howth Castle and Environs


Quizzes


The Cream of the Sources