Euphonics

One of the oldest and most secret magical arts of the ancient world, Euphonics is the study of the natural meanings of sounds in words and language. First discussed over 2,000 years ago in Platos Cratylus, it has long been used by sorcerers worldwide to weave their sonic spells.Learn about the deadly effects of D, the ghastly glint of G, the jolly jangle of J, the binary bulge of B and seductive slippery S. Indeed, this deceptively simple book, by leading wizard John Michell, and illustrated by Fleet Street cartoonist Merrily Harpur, is the only thing a careful apprentice needs to begin learning this magical perception

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• 3 First published by Frontier Publishing 1988 AD This pocket edition Wooden Books Ltd 2006 AD Publ
• 4 5 So perhaps a man who knows about names considers their value, and is not confused if some letter
• 6 i Names are important, particularly in public life and when one is young and selfconscious. Actor
• ii iii Such verbal associations are notorious afflictions on mental patients, and they also haunt th
• iv v good names and bad ones, and a good name is one that contains the proper letters. Letters are
• vi vii comprehensive worldview of Plato and Plotinus. The darling studies of the poets are commonly
• viii ix the dictionary
• x 1 A Japanese sage gives the explanation of why people falling off buildings shout Aaaaaa on their
• 2 3 B ig Bill was as broad as a barrel of beer At bruising and boozing he hadnt a peer. A burl
• 4 5 K ind Cuninas chthonic cavity, Cavern sacred to depravity Succours in its covered nooks,
• 6 7 CH Ch at the beginning of a word gives a chirpy sound, as of cheeky chicks and chappies who chee
• 8 9 The short E is too common to have individual character, but the long E, drawn out in the cry of
• 10 11 A sound of fizzling out is sometimes heard in words with F, often when A is also present. In
• 12 13 G eorge and Gert began to slog Through a grisly, gurgling bog. Gosh, gasped George,
• 14 15 The sound of the short I expresses light affection or derision. Its diminishing trivializing
• 16 17 The I, the eye and the German Ei egg are homophones, and each of them has a similar traditiona
• 18 19 J ill and Julian Gee enjoyed a joyful jamboree With a jaunt along the hedges to rejoice I
• 20 21 Q uick, Jack Wake up and act Pick up your walkingstick Look, were attacked Good luck and be
• 22 23 The doublearched shape of the letter M in its mothers eyebrows and breasts is the first patter
• 24 25 The shape of the letter O is the shape of the mouth producing the round O sound. It is a nobl
• 26 27 P apa is a prime politician And proud of his powerful position. When people implore his su
• 28 29 The Q with its curlicue or curlie queue is a funny looking letter, and the odd quirkiness of i
• 30 31 The sibilant S can be amiable, as in whispering and whistling, but it is the hostile hiss of a
• 32 33 The STR sound is strongly connected with straightness and strictness of conduct. Among the na
• 34 35 T im and Terry take a cottage near the tiny town of Wittering, Replete with dainty ornamen
• 36 37 The tremulous sound in T, combined with long vowels and various other consonants, particularly
• 38 39 In his essay on the Poetical Alphabet Mr. Blood amusingly illustrates the blunt, mundane effec
• 40 41 Vitality is in words which relate to the Latin vita life, vis force and vigor. In English are
• 42 43 The shape of the letter W can be described as wavy and watery, and so can the type of motion i
• 44 45 The form of the letter X, a cross as of two sticks laid one across the other, depicts a parado
• 46 47 There is a line in a halfremembered song which recalls those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
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