The etymologicon : a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the English language / Mark Forsyth
2011, First Edition. New York : Icon Books. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Item #469381
ISBN: 9781848313071
Physical description; 252 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; 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 -- Sausage 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 psalms -- 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 stops here -- Back to Howth Castle and environs. Subjects; English language Etymology. English language. Etymology.
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