The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Cover
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
About the author
Dedication and Acknowledgements
Epigraph
About inkyfool.com
Preface
The Etymologicon
	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
The Etymologicon audio book
The Horologicon