The Resource Alphabetter juice : or, the joy of text, Roy Blount
Alphabetter juice : or, the joy of text, Roy Blount
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The item Alphabetter juice : or, the joy of text, Roy Blount represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In "Alphabet Juice," he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations
- 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 adhominy 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 spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com? Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blount draws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a "girl gillie," and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a "giantess" than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative. As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, "The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance 'sprezzatura, ' that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat." Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste. -- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Note
- "Sarah Crichton books."
- Isbn
- 9780374533373
- Label
- Alphabetter juice : or, the joy of text
- Title
- Alphabetter juice
- Title remainder
- or, the joy of text
- Statement of responsibility
- Roy Blount
- Title variation
- Alpha better juice
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In "Alphabet Juice," he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations
- 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 adhominy 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 spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com? Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blount draws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a "girl gillie," and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a "giantess" than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative. As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, "The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance 'sprezzatura, ' that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat." Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste. -- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Blount, Roy
- Dewey number
- 818/.5407
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN6231.W64
- LC item number
- B49 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- NLM call number
- 818.5407 B657a
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- English language
- English language
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- Alphabetter juice : or, the joy of text, Roy Blount
- Note
- "Sarah Crichton books."
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 666573567
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374533373
- Lccn
- 2010039937
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)666573567
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- Alphabetter juice : or, the joy of text, Roy Blount
- Note
- "Sarah Crichton books."
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 666573567
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374533373
- Lccn
- 2010039937
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)666573567
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