Monday, 8 October 2012

The Etymologicon in the Americas






I've searched, but can find no illustration for this. 


So stylish

*The following is all best theory, but sometimes disputed.


  1. "25-year-old author"? What have you been telling them?

  2. My fault. They asked me my age and I said that I was 25, not counting weekends. That's utterly true, but I was probably being much too obscure.

  3. Congrats on your US début! I too have had the experience of having my UK book published under a new cover here, by Penguin (no birch woods for me, alas) -- but I do miss the UK cover! Where have whimsy and ornament gone? Apparently we here are blockheads in need of block letters, and sans serif too!

  4. And Berkeley Hunt is cockney rhyming slang...

    Laurie -

  5. Interesting really how your odd welsh word slips itself into other languages..
    Can you explain the similarities between Welsh and French?

  6. A New World Testament: I came across your book "Etymologicon" at a bookstore (that rare phenom - an actual brick and mortar edifice!) in Washington, DC, while I was looking (in vain) for a copy of David Weinberger's "Too Big To Know." Decidedly joy-filled at finding your book, I hunted you down across the vast expanses of the fabled internet in order to consume your wit and wisdom regularly. Hoo-AH!