{"product_id":"alphabet-juice","title":"Alphabet Juice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAli G: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow many words does you know?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNoam Chomsky: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAli G: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is some of 'em?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Da Ali G Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDid you know that both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emammal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ematter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ewince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlphabet Juice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is \"over the counter.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlount's Glossographia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Blount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is \"arbitrary.\" Even the word \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003earbitrary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ego-to guy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ecrackerjack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. From sources as venerable as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhisk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ealligator arm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlphabet Juice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Blount, Roy","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Reference)","offer_id":45971887259872,"sku":"","price":16.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/3573608.jpg?v=1720021920","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/alphabet-juice","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}