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

241 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history funny informative slow-paced
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The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them.Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized. Pretending to work? T...

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