Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story

Michael Rosen and Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN 10: 1848548869 / ISBN 13: 9781848548862

Published by John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848548869
• ISBN 13: 9781848548862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Rosen was born in 1946 in North London and read English at Oxford. He is a former Children's Laureate and is the bestselling author ofWe're Going on a Bear Hunt, which won the Smarties Best Book of the Year Award, and many other books. He presentsWord of Mouthon BBC Radio 4. This is the book he has always wanted to write.