The Etymologicon : A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Anne Marie Jackson harnessing the images

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The Etymologicon : A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Anne Marie Jackson harnessing the imagesThe Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? Mark Forsyths riotous celebration of the idiosyncratic and sometimes absurd connections between words is a classic of its kind: a