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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story

hardcover – January 1, 2013
by Michael Rosen
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ISBN-13: 9781848548862 ISBN-10: 1848548869
Publisher
John Murray
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 2013
Weight
1.3 lbs
Dimensions
22.10×4.10×14.30 cm

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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781848548862.

Tracing modern letter shapes to ancient Phoenician pictograms for everyday objects and revealing the faux archaic ye to be a memory of the Old English letter thorn, writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen shows the alphabet to be a rich source of stories and curiosities as he explores how we arrived at our 26 letters. There are discussions of lost letters and accents, oddities of pronunciation and spelling, and digressions on such topics as typewriters and the psychology of typefaces.