It's a Wonderful Word

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker?

That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap?

While we''re at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados?

In It''s a Wonderful Word, bestselling author Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most delightf...