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Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia
From head to toe to breast to behind,Carnal Knowledge is adelightfully intoxicating tour of the words we use to describe our bodies. Did you know:
-eye is one of the oldest written words in the English language?
-callipygian means "having beautiful buttocks"?
-gam, a slang word for "leg," comes from the French word jambe?
A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal...more
-eye is one of the oldest written words in the English language?
-callipygian means "having beautiful buttocks"?
-gam, a slang word for "leg," comes from the French word jambe?
A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
August 7th 2007
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2006)
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I literally just finished this book and I was nicely surprised! It's a great book to pick up at any page and read, or just read from start to finish. I've already started saying to my friends "did you know that...". When I first heard of the book I thought it would be slightly boring because it deals with the history/meaning of words but it's really interesting and sometimes downright funny.
This is a book that features almost every single word you can think of that is part of the human body (ie....more
This is a book that features almost every single word you can think of that is part of the human body (ie....more
Oct 28, 2009
Ro Cepellos
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Recommends it for:
logophiles, people who are curious about the naming of parts.
Recommended to Ro by:
Charles Hodgson, on his podictionary podcasts.
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I <3 Charles Hodgson. I fell in love with him on podictionary.com (I subscribe to the podcast and get word-of-the-day e-mails in my inbox). I love his sense of delight and wonder at the etymology of words, and I get the sense that if I wasn't already a total logophile, he would make me one. You would be AMAZED where we get the names for different parts of our anatomy!
Examples to follow!
Examples to follow!
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