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Alphabetical

How Every Letter Tells a Story

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Yazan: Michael Rosen
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From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever.

How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our seven lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things.

His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - whether it's codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games.

So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet, why X should mark the spot or became shorthand for Christmas or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on . . .

(P)2013 Hodder & Stoughton©2013 Michael Rosen English Language Learning Political Science Politics & Government Words, Language & Grammar
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[Michael Rosen's] beguiling journey through the alphabet will entrance anyone interested in the quirks of language and its history . . . Rosen has written a charming and thought-provoking book about what written language represents, how we use it, and the joys and mysteries therein. His humor and obvious love for his subject are winning elements
The perfect book for anyone who relishes the intricacies of language and letters . . . [Rosen] reveals a gift for seamlessly meshing hard information, personal anecdote, jokes and puzzles with educational, cultural and linguistic questions and wry, pointed, observations . . . There are delights in this book for all ages
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Initially this was a bit hard going, though still interesting, but then (about the letter O) it starts to get easier to get through. An interesting history of language and letters, this is a recommended book for lovers of language.

Stick with it, it's good!

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michael rosen has a voice like warm honey that trickles gently into your ears bringing with it knowledge and entertainment

read beautifully, gorgeously interesting

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I can't recommend this book enough. buy it now. a well read informative and fun book.

Informative fun.

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Who would have thought that a book about the alphabet would be so much fun and so incredibly interesting? Every letter really does tell a story!
I bought this after reading a couple of the reviews and am very glad I did, right up my street.
Clever, interesting and funny.

Clever

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I have the printed book as well but to hear the author adds an extra dimension, even though the subject is ostensibly about a writing system, which cannot capture all that can be conveyed in oral communication system.
I highly recommend to all interested in the history of our writing.

Riveting, have listened to it again and again.

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