Alphabet Juice : : 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

Blount, Roy. Book - 2008 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.7 out of 5

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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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Very Enjoyable Browsing for Word Lovers submitted by sdunav on July 18, 2014, 8:36am But I did get a little distracted by some of his abbreviations - PIE for Proto-Indo-European (the ancestor of most Western and many Asian languages), AHD (which I kept seeing as ADHD) for American Heritage Dictionary, etc. Also,his neologism "sonicky" gets used way too many times.

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 364 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374103699
0374103690

SUBJECTS
Vocabulary -- Humor.
English language -- Humor.