Albert Jack
It’s A Wonderful Word
The real origins of our favourite words, from anorak to zombie
Random House Books ( 2011)
What have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados? In It’s A Wonderful Word, Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most downright delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins.