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

"I'm hooked on Forsyth's book ... Crikey, but this is addictive"--Mathew Parris, The Times. Sunday Times Bestseller and Book of the Week on Radio Four. 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.;Title page; Copyright; Contents; About the author; Dedication; Quotation; Author's note; Preface; The Etymologicon; 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.