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Find out more at MOZY.com.com. If you're listening to Away With Words, I'm Grant Barrett and I'm sitting here with

Roy Blunt Jr. who you probably know from the game show, wait don't tell me and from his many books

Roy of the latest book is a book called alphabet juice which is kind of a I guess a dictionary of your

thoughts on interesting words yeah but it has a thesis which is that people when they talk about language

tend for some reason to overlook the intrinsic value of letters and sounds and the sounds of words. I heard you

talking recently and you used for instance the word tick meaning you know a

jerky movement. that's not onomatopoeia but it has a

kind of kinesthetic atness I think also the word articulate is you have to be articulate to say articulate each of those

consonants has to be crisp right you can mumble mumble mumble but you can murmur mrmer

but you can mumble articulate and you call this being sonicky a A word is sonicky. So it's something beyond

automatopoeia. Yeah, it could be on a lot of you, but it also could just be a kinesthetic, what your mouth goes through

in producing the word.

So do you think that the words adopt different behaviors in our mouths because of what the words mean?

Or is it the other way around?

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