You wouldn’t expect a book on the origin of words to be laugh-out-loud funny, would you?
And yet Mark Forsyth manages to do just that in his book “Etymologican – A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language“, treating us to a collection of fascinating facts about the origin of English words and phrases with wit and a wickedly wry sense of humour.
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