Eldaerenth reviewed Illustrated Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
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5 stars
Loved this book. I've always been naturally interested in etymology, so this was hours of nerd squee for me.
It's written in a way that reminds me very much of Douglas Adams: informative, entertaining, and paragraphs that end with, "And speaking of <last word that was said in previous sentence >; this word is thought to have entered the English language through..."
