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How On Earth Did We Fix Upon Our Twenty-six Letters, What Do They Mean, And How Did We Come To Write Them Down In The First Place? Michael Rosen Takes You On An ... Adventure Through The Histiory Of The Alphabet In Twenty Six ... Chapters, Fizzing With Personal Anecdotes And Fascinating Facts. Starting With The Mysterious Phoenicians And Ho 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 Letteers And Tackles The Tyranny Of Spelling ... 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 ...--book Jacket. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Story Of A -- A Is For Alphabet -- The Story Of B -- B Is For Battledore -- The Story Of C -- C Is For Ciphers -- The Story Of D -- D Is For Disappeared Letters -- The Story Of E -- E Is For E. E. Cummings -- The Story Of F -- F Is For Fonts -- The Story Of G -- G Is For Greek -- The Story Of H -- H Is For H-aspiration -- The Story Of I -- I Is For Improvisation -- The Story Of J -- J Is For Jokes -- The Story Of K -- K Is For Korean -- The Story Of L -- L Is For Ls

Who reads Alphabetical : How Every Letter Tells a Story?

Author

Michael Rosen

Publisher

John Murray General Publishing Division

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848548879

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.6 / 5 (279 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14