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

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

Mark Forsyth

275 pages • first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

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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 acc...

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