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The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle

Mark Forsyth(Autor*in)

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1. Auflage

Erschienen am 1. November 2012

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Intro
Half-title page
Copyright information
Full-title page
Contents
The Etymologicon
Title page
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
The Villains of the Language
Two Executioners and a Doctor
Thomas Crapper
Mythical Acronyms
John the Baptist and The Sound of Music
Organic, Organised, Organs
Clipping
Buffalo
Antanaclasis
China
Coincidences and Patterns
Frankly, My Dear Frankfurter
Beastly Foreigners
Pejoratives
Ciao Slave-driver
Robots
Terminators and Prejudice
Terminators and Equators
Equality in Ecuador
Bogeys
Bugbears and Bedbugs
Von Munchausen's Computer
SPAM (not spam)
Heroin
Morphing De Quincey and Shelley
Star-Spangled Drinking Songs
Torpedoes and Turtles
From Mount Vernon to Portobello Road with a Hangover
A Punch of Drinks
The Scampering Champion of the Champagne Campaign
Insulting Names
Peter Pan
Herbaceous Communication
Papa Was a Saxum Volutum
Flying Peters
Venezuela and Venus and Venice
What News on the Rialto?
Magazines
Dick Snary
Autopeotomy
Water Closets for Russia
Fat Gunhilda
Queen Gunhilda and the Gadgets
Shell
In a Nutshell
The Iliad
The Human Body
The Five Fingers
Hoax Bodies
Bunking and Debunking
The Anglo-Saxon Mystery
The Sedge-strewn Stream and Globalisation
Coffee
Cappuccino Monks
Called to the Bar
Ignorami
Fossil-less
The Frequentative Suffix
Pending
Worms and their Turnings
Mathematics
Stellafied and Oily Beavers
Beards
Islands
Sandwich Islands
The French Revolution in English Words
Romance Languages
Peripatetic Peoples
From Bohemia to California (via Primrose Hill)
California
The Hash Guys
Drugs
Pleasing Psalms
Biblical Errors
Salt
Halcyon Days
Dog Days
Cynical Dogs
Greek Education and Fastchild
Cybermen
Turning Trix
Amateur Lovers
Dirty Money
Death-pledges
Wagering War
Strapped for Cash
Fast Bucks and Dead Ones
The Buck Stops Here
Back to Howth Castle and Environs
Quizzes
The Cream of the Sources
The Horologicon
Title page
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
The Inky Fool blog
Epigraph
Dedication
Preambulation
Chapter 1
6 a.m. - Dawn
Alarm clocks - trying to get back to sleep - feigning illness
Chapter 2
7 a.m. - Waking and Washing
Slippers - looking in the mirror - self-loathing - lavatory - shower - hair - shaving - brushing your teeth
Chapter 3
8 a.m. - Dressing and Breakfast
Clothes - make-up - breakfast - preparing to depart
Chapter 4
9 a.m. - Commute
Weather - transport - car - bus - train - arriving late
Chapter 5
10 a.m. - The Morning Meeting
Staying awake - listening - arguing - yes, no, who cares? - mugwumps - keeping quiet
Chapter 6
11 a.m. - Taking a Break
Coffee - gossip - incredulity - cigarette
Chapter 7
Noon - Looking as Though You're Working
Effortlessness - sales and marketing - emails - approaching bankruptcy - asking for a raise
Chapter 8
1 p.m. - Lunch
Where to eat - who pays - The Free Lunch - eating - eating turtles - indigestion
Chapter 9
2 p.m. - Returning to Work
Nap - phoning family members
Chapter 10
3 p.m. - Trying to Make Others Work
Finding them - shouting at them
Chapter 11
4 p.m. - Tea
Chapter 12
5 p.m. - Actually Doing Some Work
Panicking - deadlines - giving up - stealing from your employer - leaving
Chapter 13
6 p.m. - After Work
Strolling around - arranging your evening
Chapter 14
7 p.m. - Shopping
Disorientation - ecstasy in the supermarket
Chapter 15
8 p.m. - Supper
Dietary requirements - seating arrangements - making conversation - avoiding conversation - hogging the wine - finishing supper - avoiding the bill
Chapter 16
9 p.m. - Drinking
Persuading others to - choosing a bar - opening the door - approaching the bar - ordering - drinking - the results of drinking - empties - forms of drunkenness
Chapter 17
10 p.m. - Wooing
On the prowl - observing your target - the chat-up - dancing - kissing - making rash proposals of marriage - fanfreluching - rejection
Chapter 18
11 p.m. - Stumbling Home
Setting off - getting lost - falling over - attempts to sleep outdoors
Chapter 19
Midnight - Nostos
Making too much noise upon returning - attempting to work - undressing - arguing with spouse - falling asleep
Epilogue
Appendix
Paralipomenon - The Drinker's Dictionary
Dictionaries and Idioticons
Index
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