It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Horologicon(or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzlingif you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparklingdeipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacularto snudgeby way of quafftideand wamblecropt, at last you can say,...
The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.
This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read The Horologicon aloud.
The Horologicon is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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