Born in London in 1977 Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford
English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book The
Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?'
has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The
Unknown Unknown' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of
the Collins English Dictionary . He lives in London with his dictionaries and blogs at
blog.inkyfool.com.
