Books by Mark Forsyth
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English
review 1: While I really enjoyed the Etymologicon because it was a fresh and novel concept that taught me the meaning and connections between a variety of words, this book was pretty well terrible. My husband, who also enjoyed his first book, described this as "the OED with a story clumsil...
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review 1: Did you know there’s a word for unnecessary words in a sentence (pleonasm)? Mark Forsyth knows the words that classify the structures of famous phrases. From alliteration to epistrophe to zeugma, he explains the figures of rhetoric that make speeches, stories, and poems memorable...
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review 1: A fun jaunt through the oddities of the English language looking at words which have fallen out of favour, or often have never found favour. The book doesn't seem to have a direction as the path it takes through its subject seems to be at the whim of where the next connection wil...
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review 1: When an authour has a top-selling and remarkable first book, it's inevitable their next work would be compared to it. It's not fair, but just the way it goes. So, in reading Mark Forsyth's Horologicon immediately following his superb Etymologicon, the former would have to be some...
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review 1: Having had the misfortune to read Mark Forsyth's 'Etymologicon' I formed the opinion that he was rather smug, and steeped in unjustified self-regard, all too eager to demonstrate his alleged wit. He may, of course, actually be a really nice bloke.Having read this latest work, how...