A enjoyable, energetic, and discovered tour into the alphabet—and cultural historical past.
Letters are tangible language. Becoming a member of collectively in countless mixtures to truly present speech, letters convey our messages and inform our tales. Whereas we encounter these tiny shapes a whole bunch of instances a day, we take without any consideration the lengthy, fascinating historical past behind one of the vital basic of human innovations: the alphabet.
The guts of the e book is the 26 fact-filled “biographies” of letters A by Z, every one figuring out the letter’s specific significance for contemporary readers, tracing its improvement from historic kinds, and discussing its noteworthy function in literature and different media. We be taught, for instance, why the letter X has a sinister and sexual aura, how B got here to indicate second greatest, why the phrase “mom” in lots of languages begins with M, and what’s the story of O.
Filled with data and lavishly illustrated, Letter Good is accessible, entertaining, and important to the appreciation of our personal language.
ASIN : B0013ALNGQ
Writer : Crown
Accessibility : Be taught extra
Publication date : December 18, 2007
Language : English
File measurement : 42.0 MB
Display screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Phrase Clever : Enabled
Print size : 412 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0307419088
Web page Flip : Enabled
Prospects say
Prospects discover the e book’s content material fascinating and respect the way it examines the evolution of every letter, with one buyer noting the way it added to their data of language historical past. Furthermore, the e book is well-written, straightforward to observe, and options humor all through. Nevertheless, a number of clients report points with the Kindle model being badly garbled.
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