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

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The Etymologicon; Telegraph books. A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language - Mark Forsyth". The Daily Telegraph. No.Edition 1. London (UK): Daily Telegraph. 30 June 2012. p.30. The etymology, by the way is Greek. Pan means everything, as in a pandemic which is a disease that has spread to all the people. The demic there is the same as democracy, which is government by the people. Once upon a time, in the 19th century, buffalo leather was very popular. This didn’t come from American buffalo (which are, technically, bison), but from European oxen (which are, technically, buffalo). A Victorian housemaid would always use a buffalo leather cloth to polish the furniture. This got shortened to buff leather, and hence you buff something up, until it looks beautiful and shiny. When the housemaid had finished her work everything would look good and shiny and was therefore called buff. That’s why if you go to the gym a little too much and end up looking muscular and bursting with health, you look really buff. In June 2012, Forsyth gave a TEDX talk entitled "What’s a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak". [11] Education [ edit ] love (v.) Old English lufian "to love, cherish, show love to; delight in, approve," from Proto-Germanic *lubojan (cognates: Old High German lubon, German lieben), from root of love (n.). Related: Loved; loving. ]

Kenneth Arnold was a businessman and aviator who, on June 24th 1947, saw nine thingummybobs flying past Mount Ranier in Washington State at over a thousand miles an hour. Or, he sayshe saw them. This blog post will not answer the great question as to whether extraterrestrial life visits earth, because, though I know the answer, I'm not telling. Etymologicum Magnum ( Ancient Greek: Ἐτυμολογικὸν Μέγα, Ἐtymologikὸn Mέga) (standard abbreviation EM, or Etym. M. in older literature) is the traditional title of a Greek lexical encyclopedia compiled at Constantinople by an unknown lexicographer around 1150 AD. It is the largest Byzantine lexicon and draws on many earlier grammatical, lexical and rhetorical works. Its main sources were two previous etymologica, the so-called Etymologicum Genuinum and the Etymologicum Gudianum. Other sources include Stephanus of Byzantium, the Epitome of Diogenianus, the so-called Lexicon Αἱμωδεῖν ( Haimōdeῖn), Eulogius’ Ἀπορίαι καὶ λύσεις ( Ἀporίai kaὶ lύseis), George Choeroboscus’ Epimerismi ad Psalmos, the Etymologicon of Orion of Thebes, and collections of scholia. [1] The compiler of the Etymologicum Magnum was not a mere copyist; rather he amalgamated, reorganised, augmented and freely modified his source material to create a new and individual work. He is the author of best-selling [4] books The Etymologicon, The Horologicon, and The Elements of Eloquence, as well as being known for his blog The Inky Fool. [5] [6] [7] [8] Forsyth's earlier work was based around the meaning of words and more specifically, obscure and out-of-use words. His first two books were featured on BBC Radio 4's series Book of the Week. [9] [10] K. Alpers (2001), ‘Lexicographie (B.I-III)’ in G. Üding and W. Jens (eds.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik 2 (Tübingen) 194-210.When ink-stained etymologists are being jetted around the world and interviewed on television you know that something has gone horribly, horribly awry. [56] And fice itself comes from the Old English fist, which likewise meant fart. In Elizabethan times a smelly dog was called a fisting cur, and by the eighteenth century any little dog was called a feist, and that's where we get the word feisty from. Little dogs are so prone to bark at anything that an uppity girl was called feisty, straight from the flatulent dogs of yore. This is a point well worth remembering when you're next reading a film review about a 'feisty heroine.' We’ve become fooled, you see, by the OED – the fact you can ‘look up what a word means’ tends to fool us into believing that words have meanings, when in fact they basically get their meanings from their relation to all other words in the language. Another book I’m reading at the moment says that words are empty jars which we fill with meaning as we become more aware of the world. K. Alpers (1990), ‘Griechische Lexicographie in Antike und Mittelalter. Dargestellt an ausgewählten Beispielen’ in H.-A. Koch and A. Krup-Eber (eds.), Welt der Information. Wissen und Wissensvermittlung in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Stuttgart) 14-38. If you are hungry for a feast of mildly interesting linguistic factoids with which to gorge yourself and potentially vomit all over everyone around you, never fear - this book offers a bounteous buffet. In the introduction, Forsyth admits that the reason the book exists is to give him an outlet for all of his rambling and useless etymological knowledge, so that he need not continue to torment acquaintances with it. "Unlike me," he says, "a book could be left snugly on the bedside table or beside the lavatory: opened at will and closed at will."

Midsummer Night's Dream actually takes place on the night of April 30/May 1st. When Theseus finds the young lovers he says: PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Etymologicon__A_Circular_Stroll_Throug_-_Mark_Forsyth.pdf, The_Etymologicon__A_Circular_Stroll_Throug_-_Mark_Forsyth.epubThe earliest evidence of any settlement in the Paddington area is what was called 'Padintune', which means the 'tun' or farm belonging to Padda. Padda's tun itself was located nearby, roughly where Marble Arch stands today. Some of the chapters about two-thirds of the way through feel a little short and rushed, but in the main each chapter gave me something to annoy Louise with. The final chapter contains the clever twist-in-the-tail, ending as it does with the start phrase of the first chapter. Neatly closing the loop. Lee, John (26 October 2014). "England; Bibliophile's London haunts". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, CA. p.L.6.