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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language - Mark Forsyth

bookshelves: fradio, radio-4, winter-20122013, nonfiction, published-2012

Read from November 30 to December 08, 2012

 

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The Etymologicon was last year's surprise runaway bestseller. The author has now assembled The Horologicon, or book of hours, to delight his audience with a feast of words appropriate to a precise moment of the day.

Written by Mark Forsyth Read by Hugh Dennis Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio4

Theme tune is Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

4* The Etymologicon
3* The Horologicon

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