Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $9.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Book of Names
    Book of Names
    Book of Names
    Ebook72 pages28 minutes

    Book of Names

    By Graham Burgess

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    When I first published on this topic I called the book Why is the letter A at the beginning of the alphabet ?

    It was too complex and so was the book.

    After lots of questioning on the topic I have decided to approach the topic again in a simpler way.

    One of the key questions various people have asked is What about the other ways of writing and the other languages ?.

    The answer is in the fact that one has to focus on what I am calling the intuit embedded in each of the letters in the English alphabet.


    The form that our letters take has evolved and has become amazingly efficient at enabling us to communicate effectively.

    Much has been written on this topic but generally the explanations have been drawn away from simplicity. This is not surprising as mankinds development has been towards complexity. Mankind is not positively pre-disposed to explore things that are simply known about intuitively.

    I do not know whether this book will be useful at all but it is interesting to know why we express our feelings using configurations like the alphabet and other written forms.

    So first of all I am going to put our alphabet in context with all other forms of writing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9781477159910
    Book of Names
    Author

    Graham Burgess

    When I first published on this topic I called the book Why is the letter A at the beginning of the alphabet ? It was too complex and so was the book. After lots of questioning on the topic I have decided to approach the topic again in a simpler way. One of the key questions various people have asked is What about the other ways of writing and the other languages ?. The answer is in the fact that one has to focus on what I am calling the intuit embedded in each of the letters in the English alphabet. The form that our letters take has evolved and has become amazingly efficient at enabling us to communicate effectively. Much has been written on this topic but generally the explanations have been drawn away from simplicity. This is not surprising as mankinds development has been towards complexity. Mankind is not positively pre-disposed to explore things that are simply known about intuitively. I do not know whether this book will be useful at all but it is interesting to know why we express our feelings using configurations like the alphabet and other written forms. So first of all I am going to put our alphabet in context with all other forms of writing.

    Related to Book of Names

    Related ebooks

    Reference For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Writing Great Copy: 20 Lessons

      Aug 12, 2018

      First let me say, being a full-time freelance writer is a great way to live. The work is always mentally stimulating and different, you work from the comfort of your own home office, you wear absolutely whatever you want and a teapot is always within

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Sep 19, 2021

      Do you want to make Double Helix your next book club read? Here are some talking points to start a discussion: • Would you want to know if you’d inherited a gene for a disease that is always fatal? If you knew, what would you do differently? • Emily’

      1 min read

    • Article

      Party Barns

      Mar 1, 2022

      Party Barns
      2 min read

    • Article

      Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing

      Dec 23, 2020

      The Chinese artist Xu Bing has long experimented to stunning effect with the limits of the written form. Last year I visited the Centre del Carme in Valencia, Spain, to see a retrospective of his work. One installation, Book from the Sky, featured sc

      10 min read

    • Article

      Reading Their World

      Oct 1, 2020

      Reading Their World
      4 min read

    • Article

      On The

      Aug 1, 2021

      On The
      4 min read

    • Article

      What Is Writing?

      Sep 5, 2024

      What Is Writing?
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Translation

      Feb 13, 2019

      AFTER a recent translation conference, a young colleague brought up an interesting question: “I keep hearing people say that they translate from the Spanish, they translate from the French. Why the?” Why indeed. This was asked of a carful of people,

      12 min read

    • Article

      STYLE: Dig Out Your Prose

      Apr 4, 2024

      STYLE: Dig Out Your Prose
      5 min read

    • Article

      Change the Words You Use

      Aug 24, 2021

      Change the Words You Use
      2 min read

    • Article

      Ideas To Help Polish Your Writing

      Aug 3, 2023

      For many people, ‘Give me a vowel’ will bring up an instant reference to the TV programme Countdown. In the context of the game show, vowels and consonants were linked to letters of the alphabet, with A-E-I-O-U being vowels and the other 21 letters c

      3 min read

    • Article

      Why Do Kids Stop Drawing?

      Dec 1, 2022

      Why Do Kids Stop Drawing?
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy

      May 25, 2017

      In his recent Nautilus essay, “The Kekulé Problem,” Cormac McCarthy suggests that our unconscious mental processes are a modern echo of the prelinguistic minds of our prehistoric ancestors. He sees a stark contrast between language as a fairly recent

      6 min read

    • Article

      Sokolowski’s Inspiring Word Work

      Dec 5, 2017

      As the editor-at-large of Merriam-Webster, Peter Sokolowski oversees the dictionary’s print and online content, which, in addition to word definitions, includes podcasts, videos, and blogs. In August Sokolowski and his fellow editors rolled out Time

      2 min read

    • Article

      Sokolowski’s Inspiring Word Work

      Dec 13, 2017

      As the editor-at-large of Merriam-Webster, Peter Sokolowski oversees the dictionary’s print and online content, which, in addition to word definitions, includes podcasts, videos, and blogs. In August Sokolowski and his fellow editors rolled out Time

      2 min read

    • Article

      Your Writing Critiqued

      Dec 7, 2023

      Your Writing Critiqued
      6 min read

    • Article

      Level Up Your Writing (life)

      Apr 12, 2021

      Consider this: Evocative writing in which characters come to life so fully that you’d recognize them as readily as, say, a neighbor or aunt. Now consider: Did that literary wondrousness take place in an amorphous place and time, a setting so vague th

      5 min read

    • Article

      2. Diminution

      Sep 3, 2021

      2. Diminution
      4 min read

    • Article

      Hardwired For Novelty

      Apr 10, 2022

      Hardwired For Novelty
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Tyranny of the Verb To Be

      Jun 13, 2022

      The Tyranny of the Verb To Be
      9 min read

    • Article

      Language Both Enraptures and Deceives Us

      Sep 12, 2019

      The purpose of language is to reveal the contents of our minds, says Julie Sedivy. It’s a simple and profound insight. We are social animals and language is what springs us from our isolated selves and connects us with others. Sedivy has taught lingu

      13 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Book of Names

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Book of Names - Graham Burgess

      Copyright © 2012 by Graham Burgess.

      ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4771-5990-3

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4771-5991-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      [email protected]

      304750

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      FORMING THE LETTERS

      NAMES AND WHAT THEY MEAN

      INTRODUCTION

      When I first published on this topic I called the book Why is the letter A at the beginning of the alphabet ?

      It was too complex and so was the book.

      After lots of questioning on the topic I have decided to approach the topic again in a simpler way.

      One of the key questions various people have asked is What about the other ways of writing and the other languages ?

      The answer is in the fact that one has to focus on what I am calling the intuit embedded in each of the letters in the English alphabet.

      The form that our letters take has evolved and has become amazingly efficient at enabling us to communicate effectively.

      Much has been written on this topic but generally the explanations have been drawn away from simplicity. This is not surprising as Mankind’s development has been towards complexity. Mankind is not positively pre-disposed to explore things that are simply known about intuitively.

      I do not know whether this book will be useful at all but it is interesting to know why we express our feelings using configurations like the alphabet and other written forms.

      So first of all I am going to put our alphabet in context with all other forms of writing.

      THE POOL

      Imagine a pool was filled with water. It lay still for a while and the sun shone upon it.

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1