| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
364 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Sarah Crichton Books." |
| Summary |
After forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, Roy Blount Jr. still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is "arbitrary." Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its roots, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) 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 Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other. |
| Subject |
Vocabulary -- Humor.
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English language -- Dictionaries -- Humor.
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| ISBN |
9780374103699 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0374103690 hardcover alkaline paper |
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