Mark Forsyth – author of The Etymologicon – interviewed in the Bookseller

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Mark Forsyth, whose book The Etymologicon is one of Icon’s highlights for the Christmas season this year, is interviewed in publishing trade magazine the Bookseller today.

His book explores the hidden connections between words in the English language, and springs from his blog, The Inky Fool.

‘”It’s the silliness of the English language that drives me and makes me laugh,” Forsyth explains with enthusiasm. “You look up a word like ‘kiosk’ and you find it means ‘Turkish palace’, and you think, what? How? Really? It feels to me like wandering around a network of streets that you know and nobody else does.”‘

Read the full interview here and much more about the book here. It’s published in early November.