Alphabet Juice (eBook, ePUB)
The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
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"As if ripped on Old Crow fortified with Adderall, Blount chases letters, words and phrases to their origins, and when stumped he hypothesizes." - The New York TimesDid you know that both mammaland matterderive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wincemakes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath?Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs.In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of le...
"As if ripped on Old Crow fortified with Adderall, Blount chases letters, words and phrases to their origins, and when stumped he hypothesizes." - The New York Times
Did you know that both mammaland matterderive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wincemakes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath?
Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs.
In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is "over the counter."
Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount's Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. ThisBlount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is "arbitrary." Even the word arbitraryis shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guyor crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED(in which Blount finds an inconsistency, atwhisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of "alligator arm"), and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juicederives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.
" Alphabet Juice is pure Roy Blount Jr. amusing, bemusing, and smart as hell." - Fortune
"Gracefully erudite and joyous." -Katherine A. Powers, TheBostonGlobe
Did you know that both mammaland matterderive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wincemakes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath?
Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs.
In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is "over the counter."
Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount's Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. ThisBlount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is "arbitrary." Even the word arbitraryis shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guyor crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED(in which Blount finds an inconsistency, atwhisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of "alligator arm"), and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juicederives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.
" Alphabet Juice is pure Roy Blount Jr. amusing, bemusing, and smart as hell." - Fortune
"Gracefully erudite and joyous." -Katherine A. Powers, TheBostonGlobe
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