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Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount (2008, Hardcover) 
Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount (2008, Hardcover)

 
Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount (2008, Hardcover)

Author: Roy Blount
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0374103690
ISBN-13: 9780374103699
Product ID: EPID65719240
Description: After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In this book, he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations.
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Synopsis
After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In this book, he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations.

Harvard-educated Georgian humorist and essayist George Blount Jr. savors the English language's most delicious tidbits in ALPHABET JUICE, a book that blends lexicography with yarn-spinning. Though his interests and intellectual tangents are wide-ranging, Blount's book has a basic over-arching philosophy: that the best words have a rich connection between meaning and sound--for example, "swoon," "goulash," or "sphincter."

Details
Publication Date:2008-10-14

Size
Length:364 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:21.6 oz

Publisher's Note
A celebration of letters and their combinations as used outside of their "proper" applications builds on the spirit of Sir Thomas Blount's Blount's Glossographia to challenge beliefs about the arbitrary relationship between words and their meanings, in a lighthearted lexicon that draws on modern resources to reveal the organic nature of the English language.

Industry Reviews
"The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance 'sprezzatura,' that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat....Like Roy Blount Jr. himself, [ALPHABET JUICE] neatly balances real learning with easy-loping charm."
(10/12/2008)

"There's no aspect of our language, written, spoken or grunted, that escapes Blount appraisal....Marginalized as a humorist...because he knows how to write funny, Blount is also a superb reporter who possesses an imaginative intellect."
(11/16/2008)

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