(P/B) THE ETYMOLOGICON

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What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces?
As heard on BBC Radio 4, The Etymologicon -which springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog- is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language. It takes in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explains precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. (From the publisher)

"I'm hooked on Forsyth's book... Crikey, but this is addictive" (Matthew Parris, The Times)

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Preface
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