Mark Forsyth on ABC – and on ‘Barracking’

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Mark Forsyth, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Etymologicon, was interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio last week – you can listen it again here.

And here he his explaining the origin of the word ‘barracking’ – for which the English have the Aussies and the Ashes to blame, even if the word means the opposite in the UK to what it does down under:

Mark’s book is sold by Allen & Unwin in Australia and New Zealand – see more about it here.