Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text

✍ Scribed by Blount, Roy Jr

• Book ID: 107818826
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 234 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781429922784

✦ Synopsis

Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists

No man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz ,__ is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists, tangs, and energies of letters and their combinations in Alphabet Juice , to wide acclaim. Now, Alphabetter Juice. Which is better.

This book __ is for anyone--novice wordsmith, sensuous reader, or career grammarian--who loves to get physical with words. What is the universal sign of disgust, ew , doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless , but not frogless , in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the U. S. Supreme Court find relevance in gollywoddles? Might there be scientific evidence for the sonicky value of hunch? And why would someone not bother to...