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

Автор: Mark Forsyth
Аудиокнига: The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Издательство: Icon Books
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF, EPUB, MP3 96.0 Kbps
Размер: 253 Mb
Язык: Английский

A quirky, entertaining and thought-provoking tour of the unexpected connections between words, read by Simon Shepherd. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces?
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. 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.