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The Etymologicon
- A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
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Resumen del Editor
Do you know why…
a mortgage is literally a death pledge? …why guns have girls’ names? …why salt is related to soldier?
You’re about to find out…The Etymologicon (e-t?-‘mä-lä-ji-kän) is:
*Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor
*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge
*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive
The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: How you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.
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Almost every culture on Earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. Making stops all over the world, A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to the 20th century.
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Wow!!
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De: Mark Forsyth
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The Story of English in 100 Words
- De: David Crystal
- Narrado por: David Crystal
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ("roe", in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ("loaf") to cutting edge ("twittersphere") and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ("and", "what") to the more fanciful ("fopdoodle"), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language.
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Random but entertaining
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The Mother Tongue
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson - the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent - brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't) to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
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The Colour of Magic
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- De: Terry Pratchett
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Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
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TERRIBLE Narration!
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De: Terry Pratchett
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The Edge of the World
- A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
- De: Michael Pye
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: They all crisscrossed the grey North Sea in the so-called "dark ages", the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe's mastery over the oceans. Now the critically acclaimed Michael Pye reveals the cultural transformation sparked by those men and women: the ideas, technology, science, law, and moral codes that helped create our modern world.
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Super enjoyable
- De beakt en 10-01-19
De: Michael Pye
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies.
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Not what I Expected
- De Mark en 02-20-08
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Foucault's Pendulum
- De: Umberto Eco
- Narrado por: Tim Curry
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully groomed mustache, wears maroon socks, and who once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan book editors that he has discovered a coded message about a Templar Plan, centuries old and involving Stonehenge, a plan to tap a mystic source of power far greater than atomic energy.
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too much missing
- De Kenneth en 01-29-07
De: Umberto Eco
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The Possessed
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- De: Elif Batuman
- Narrado por: Elif Batuman
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In The Possessed we watch Elif Batuman investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has 100 different words for crying; and see an 18th-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their places in The Possessed.
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Dear Russian Literary Diary...
- De Darwin8u en 08-29-17
De: Elif Batuman
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- De: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
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Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- De George M. Liveakos en 03-24-17
De: Rebecca Romney, y otros
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British History for Dummies
- De: Sean Lang
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Putting history into a perspective, this is an engaging, entertaining and educational trip through time, packing in equal parts fun and facts. Recently updated, British History For Dummies introduces listeners to recent events, including British actions in Afghanistan, and David Cameron's formation of Britain's first coalition Cabinet since World War II. But don't worry - British History For Dummies doesn't skimp on the old stuff! It's a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain.
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historical and punnie
- De Michellerose en 06-18-16
De: Sean Lang
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The Kingdom of Speech
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
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Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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Takedown of a pseudointellectual bully!
- De Wayne en 09-01-16
De: Tom Wolfe
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold History of English
- De: John McWhorter
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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Great for casual linguists
- De Bertie en 01-11-10
De: John McWhorter
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You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News
- Shocking but Utterly True Facts
- De: Cracked.com
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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You're going to wish you never got this audiobook. Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in. Think you're going to choose whether or not to buy this book? Scientists say your brain secretly makes all your decisions 10 seconds before you even know what they are.
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Buenas fabulas de humor
- De Cynthia en 10-27-14
De: Cracked.com
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The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them. From Mark Forsyth, the author of the number-one international best seller The Etymologicon comes an audiobook of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
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There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown.
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The best "Read the Dictionary" on Audible
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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A Short History of Drunkenness
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Almost every culture on Earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. Making stops all over the world, A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to the 20th century.
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Wow!!
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The Adventure of English
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This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
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In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you’re aiming to achieve literary immortality or just hoping to deliver the perfect one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don’t need to have anything important to say - you simply need to say it well.
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson - the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent - brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't) to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
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In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ("roe", in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ("loaf") to cutting edge ("twittersphere") and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ("and", "what") to the more fanciful ("fopdoodle"), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language.
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Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles to a simple sentence or paragraph. Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric recovers this knowledge for our times. It amounts to a tutorial on eloquence conducted by Churchill and Lincoln, Dickens and Melville, Burke and Paine, and more than a hundred others.
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Like, Literally, Dude
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Paranoid about the “ums” and “uhs” that pepper your presentations? Concerned that people notice your vocal fry? Bewildered by “hella” or the meteoric rise of “so”? In Like, Literally, Dude, linguist Valerie Fridland shows how we can re-imagine these forms as exciting new linguistic frontiers rather than our culture’s impending demise. With delightful irreverence and expertise, Fridland weaves together history, psychology, science, and anecdotes to explain why we speak the way we do today, and how that impacts what our kids may be saying tomorrow.
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Fun and Insightful
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Nine Nasty Words
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Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact, our ability to curse comes from a different part of the brain than other parts of speech - the urgency with which we say "f--k!" is instead related to the instinct that tells us to flee from danger. Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic.
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- 09-01-16
Simply delightful
This is a delightful book. It is well written, with obviously excellent grammar and punctuation...! And flowed from one term to another with ease. The narrator was easy to listen to, and I enjoyed his humorous tone. I will listen to it in the future many times I think.
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- 04-04-16
Packed full of interesting facts
The author takes the definition of one word, in this case 'book' and runs with it and sees where it takes him.
This is one of those books perfect for reading for 15 minutes and then putting down. Indeed, I'd nearly recommend you to consume it in small chunks as you are bombarded with a lot of information very quickly, so listening for too mong becomes overwhelming.
There are lots of interesting facts in the book. It is also quite humorous, though at times some of the humour seems a bit forced and perhaps unnecessary.
Still, if you enjoy the English language then you'll enjoy this book.
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- Dayle
- 05-27-16
circular indeed!
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Note, the author admits to being a circuitous thinker/speaker, so this book is told almost as if the listener is on a roller coaster. It never stops moving! I loved it! Not only is the telling different, but the data is fascinating! Ive got so much word trivia now, Im guaranteed to be ushered out of the next party! I think I had an idiotic smile on my face the whole time I was listening. I know I laughed out loud about the SPAM/spam...Monty Python...email part.......
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- osm joey
- 05-26-22
10/10 will always recommend
Excellent listen through and through. I have and will recommend this book to everyone I know In life.
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- Lacey Porter
- 06-09-22
Delightful.
I enjoyed listening to this audiobook very much and will likely listen to again. It made my little linguaphile heart happy.
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- Kevin Eliasen
- 02-08-22
Fun for the Word Nerd in all of us
Quirky, funny, and simultaneously expansive yet concise. The path meandered throughout time and across the world, yet always came back to what we call home.
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- K. Brown
- 02-05-22
Excellent book for sleep
You can judge this book by its cover. I have books that I choose to listen to when I drive, when I do tasks around the house, and when I’m trying to get to sleep.
Focus on the words as you listen to this book at 0.8 speed and I suspect you’ll be off to sleep in less than 10 minutes. Amazon has other old books set up specifically for this purpose, but this one beats all the others I’ve tried. I’m certain he’ll end up selling me all of his books just for this purpose.
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- Michael Hirschberg
- 02-13-22
If you love words, this book is for you!
This is the funniest book I've ever read or listened to on words and the origins of words. In addition to countless insights, the book includes lots of laugh-out-loud passages delivered with precision by the narrator. Quite an enjoyable listen!l. I can't wait to read the author's other books!
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- Kyle M DeWitt
- 01-22-17
This is one you need to READ, like with your eyes
I love the wittiness of the author, and the cyclical nature of the story. Many of the nuances of his word play are missed by not reading the words themselves though. Overall a fun story to listen too, full of new origins to words you will carry with you forever.
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- Patrick S.
- 05-26-16
Hello, and welcome to Fun With Words
What made the experience of listening to The Etymologicon the most enjoyable?
I enjoyed listening to the string of consciousness of words from origin to ending.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Etymologicon?
Learning where we get some of our technical jargon from.
Have you listened to any of Don Hagen’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Sometimes a word will have a certain connotation and through it's use will end up to mean the complete opposite - these were quite fun to learn about.
Any additional comments?
"That book talks a lot about testicles!" - my wife
If this book does one thing it's to cement the fact that the author, Mark Forsyth, must be fun at parties. This book must have been a fun challenge to write. It reads like one big conversation where most things are tied together and you learn where a number of words got their meaning. The stories aren't long so there are quite a few words. I really thought a more words were going to come from sexual meanings; and while that's the case for some, there seem to be more words that stem from food.
If you enjoy words and their origins this is a really fun book and isn't too "heady" that a non-scholar couldn't enjoy it. There are quite a number of category of words that the book covers and had a number of laugh out loud moments. Just a note too - reading this book doesn't lend to always knowing the pronunciations of some of the derivatives. Yet, listening to the audio book doesn't allow you to ruminate on some of the line of words. Each version has its pros and cons. Final Grade - B
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