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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816979663 Title: The etymologicon : a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the english language. Author: Mark Forsyth Publisher: New york : Berkley Books, 2012, ©2011. ISBN/ISSN: 9780425260791 0425260798 OCLC:816979663

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The etymologicon : a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the english language.

Author:	Mark Forsyth
Publisher:	New york : Berkley Books, 2012, ©2011.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : Berkley trade paperback edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language."--Back cover.
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Subjects	English language -- Etymology. Anglais (Langue) -- Étymologie.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Mark Forsyth Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780425260791 0425260798
OCLC Number:	816979663
Description:	304 pages
Contents:	Machine generated contents note: 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. Contents note continued: 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. Contents note continued: 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.

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"The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language."--Back cover.

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"The stocking filler of the season...how else to describe a book that explains the connection between Dom Perignon and Mein Kampf."--The Observer"Crikey...this is addictive!"--The Times"Mark Forsyth Read more...

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