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
