about Charles Hodgson

the book about the words we use for our bodies

Did you know:
• CALLIPYGIAN means “having beautiful buttocks”?

• The word SIDEBURNS comes to us courtesy of U.S. Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside?

• Victorian poet Robert Browning used a very rude word but never knew it?

A treat for anyone who gets a kick out of words, Carnal Knowledge is also the perfect gift for anyone interested in the human body and the many ways it’s been described.

“presented with deftness and wit” – Lynne Truss
"master etymologist offers a passionate lesson” – Richard Lederer

“entertain your brain…tickle your funny bone” – Erin McKean

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As well as writing Carnal Knowledge,
Charles Hodgson writes & records
podictionary, a podcast and blog
for word lovers.

Charles has a checkered history:
engineering, whitewater canoeing,
space hardware, skate-skiing,
military electronics, environmentalism,
dot-com management, writer and logophile.

It’s his long time love of words (that’s what
logophile means) that led
him to write Carnal Knowledge
and to create podictionary.

Charles can be reached via
podictionary’s feedback.