A prayer full of the intimate gentleness for familiar things

“Todos los indicios señalan una crisis económica que será peligrosa

but he can't get past the sense that she's hiding something

draws Milan into the case--and puts him in a very awkward position

The Etymologicon Folktales A prayer full of theThe Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organized crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? Mark Forsyth's riotous celebration of the idiosyncratic and sometimes absurd connections between words is a classic of its kind: a