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Mark Forsyth

The Etymologicon

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.

'Witty and erudite … stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick Duerden, Independent.

'Particularly good… Forsyth takes words and draws us into their, and our, murky history.' William Leith, Evening Standard.

The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language.

What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces?

Mark Forsyth's riotous celebration of the idiosyncratic and sometimes absurd connections between words is a classic of its kind: a mine of fascinating information and a must-read for word-lovers everywhere.

'Highly recommended' Spectator.
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Дата публикации оригинала
2011
Год выхода издания
2011
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  • Inna Shafikovaделится впечатлением3 года назад
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable
    😄LOLZ

    It is the best! It is probably the first time I've laughed since the war began

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  • Eugene Kostarevцитируетпозавчера
    Argon, the other major gas in air, wasn’t known about at the time, because it’s an inert gas and doesn’t produce anything at all. That’s why it’s called argon. Argon is Greek for lazy.
  • Eugene Kostarevцитируетпозавчера
    Being a scientist, he of course dressed this up in Greek, and the Greek for water producer is hydro-gen. The bit of air that made things acidic he decided to call the acid-maker or oxy-gen, and the one that produced nitre then got called nitro-gen.
  • Eugene Kostarevцитируетпозавчера
    And then he grew bigger than any of us, because, since the phrase was invented in 1941, we have all become part of the gene pool, which, etymologically, means that we are all little bits of chicken.

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