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A story of a fictional island off the cost of the US famed for the sentence of “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” that was considered the shortest possible sentence using the alphabet. The letters begin to fall off the statue that is dedicated to the sentence and the politicians of the island decide that this a message from the creator of the sentence that the citizens are to go without using that particular letter.
Its a fun book that plays with words but it is also a satire of the d ...more
Its a fun book that plays with words but it is also a satire of the d ...more
I am a word nerd so I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I sat with a dictionary available. I enjoy learning things as I read and this book did not disappoint. For me, the idea of government overstepping was an interesting secondary theme. Beware that nearing the end of story, reading phonetically spelled words can be a challenge as more and more letters are banned from use.
