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  title info:
    title: Alphabetical
    sub title: how every letter tells a story
  name:
    name part: Rosen, Michael
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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 five 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. This is the book for anyone who's ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry"--
  note: Michael Rosen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Alphabet
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Alphabet in literature
  subject:
    topic: Writing
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems
  subject:
    topic: Alphabet
  subject:
    topic: Alphabet in literature
  subject:
    topic: Writing
  classification: P211 .R65 2015
  classification: 421/.1
  classification: LAN001000
  identifier: 9781619024830 (hbk.)
  identifier: 1619024837 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2014035051
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140919
    record change date: 20151206125831.0
    record identifier: in00003489824
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng