Sunday, November 2, 2008

How words convey meaning through sound

Alphabet Juice

Roy Blount Jr. has written at least twenty books and dozens of essays, so his lifetime word count is surely in the millions. His latest book is Alphabet Juice, a kind of shaggy encyclopedia of how words actually convey their meanings through sound.


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Read the first chapter of Alphabet Juice:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/books/chapters/chapter-alphabet-juice.html

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Junius Wright is a language arts teacher at the Academic Magnet High School in Charleston, SC.