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

Author: Mark Forsyth

Narrator: Don Hagen

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/01/2014

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That’s fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don’t get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them. From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes 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.

About Mark Forsyth

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 Number One 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" 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ALLEN

This fun and funny short book by word expert Mark Forsyth takes us on a day's tour of unusual and obsolete words. And there are plenty such words, each one stranger than the one before it. If you wake up with a ghastly pimple you've been confronted with a pimginnit, a frightful Seventeenth-Century w......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Having read the author's other book, The Etymologicon, I was quite disappointed by this. Its structure didn't quite work for me, and passages of it were a bit dull.......more

Goodreads review by Mara

Author, Mark Forsyth, warns readers against consuming The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language start-to-finish, cautioning that: If you do, Hell itself will hold no horrors for you, and neither the author nor his parent company will accept liability for any sui......more