The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them.

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

Author: Mark Forsyth
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780425264379
ISBN10: 0425264378
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Etymology
- Reference | Word Lists
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy

About the Author
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist, proofreader, ghostwriter, and pedant. He was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. He is the creator of The Inky Fool, a blog about words, phrases, grammar, rhetoric, and prose. He lives in the UK.