The Horologicon

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, READ BY HUGH DENNIS The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

ISBN	1848314159	DEWEY edition	DC23
ISBN13	9781848314153 (What's this?)	Pages	256
Publisher	Icon Books Ltd	Published in	Duxford
Imprint	Icon Books Ltd	Height (mm)	198
Format	Hardback	Width (mm)	129
Publication date	01 Nov 2012	Spine width (mm)	15
DEWEY	420.14	Academic level	General

The new book from the author of the Sunday Times Number one bestseller The Etymologicon 'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting' -- Roland White, Sunday Times 'A magical new book ... Forsyth unveils a selection of those obsolete, but oh-so-wonderful words' -- Daily Mail 'This is surely the quirkiest, funniest English word book' -- Good Book Guide 'Whether you are out on the pickaroon or ogo-pogoing for a bellibone, The Horologicon is a lexical lamppost.' -- The Field 'Witty and entertaining ... [Mark's] sheer enjoyment of words and deep study of them shines through every page.' -- A Common Reader

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