Tag: Haggard Hawks

• Book review: The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones

  He’s done it again. On the heels of his delightful Accidental Dictionary, Paul Anthony Jones—the word-grubbing mastermind behind the wildly popular @HaggardHawks online–is out with another collection of weird and wonderful words. This one’s called A Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words (Elliott & Thompson, 2017). The publisher kindly sent me a…

  John Kelly

  October 28, 2017

  Review

• The Accidental Dictionary by Paul Anthony Jones

  If you like Mashed Radish, then you’ll love Paul Anthony Jones’ latest book, The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words (Elliott & Thompson, 2016, £12.99 hardback/ebook). With intelligence and wit, Jones offers the surprising origins and developments of 100 everyday words, from affiliate to zombie. Each selection is pithy and engaging,…

  John Kelly

  October 13, 2016

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