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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

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Don't forget your bumbershoot: This lively book digs up the wonderfully colourful English vocabulary that has disappeared from daily use". And cappuccinos are named after the Capuchin monks, because of their lovely cream-brown coloured robes. If I added that the phrases in the buff, looking buff, and buff up were all also short for buffalo, the confusion would not alleviated at all.

So silly is the pelican idea, that flying saucer enthusiasts coined the term pelicanist for those who would explain away all sightings with unlikely substitutes. Juvenal made fun of such people in his 14th Satire, although his main target was idle people who do things just because they're fashionable, and then get Much Too Into It. Kemp-Habib, Alice, "Folio wins big at British Book Design and Production Awards", The Bookseller, Jan 20, 2023.And butterflies were the symbol of the goddess psyche, so psychoanalysis really means the release of the butterfly? That will entail that they are from the beginning build as to attract attention and to amuze the reader.

The book had me laughing within the first five minutes, and from there I was frequently giggling with quite a few bouts of raucous laughter. As you might expect, this last book concerns word origins, word meanings, and how one word leads to another. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. Everything from your argument to your hand gestures, right up to the argumentum ad baculum or argument by stick, which involves hitting somebody until they agree with you. Tin tacks, syntax and Chinese sensibility: What a nation puts in its dictionaries tells us far more about it than history books ever can".PDF] [EPUB] The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Download by Mark Forsyth. Sometimes Forsyth's humor gets the better of him: "Women can't be virtuous," he avers (p, 219), punning on virtuous from vir, Latin for "man. It's not an academic work, that's for sure, nor a thesis, nor a highly-focused and heavily detailed linguistic magnum opus. Why when you desperately try and fail to connect your speakers to your phone, do you try to activate blue teeth?

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