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    Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation: A Study in Typography
    Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation: A Study in Typography
    Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation: A Study in Typography
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    Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation: A Study in Typography

    By Willard Johnson and Harry Miller Lydenberg

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    Andrew Airpump ask'd his Aunt her ailment, Davy Dolldrum dream'd he drove a Dragon, Jumping Jackey jeer'd a Jesting Juggler, and Rory Rumpus rode a raw-bon'd Race-horse among other antics in this antique alphabet of tongue twisters.
    Originally published in 1836, this charming collection of whimsical rhymes was redesigned 100 years later by some of the twentieth century's most celebrated typographers. The artists volunteered their services and worked independently of each other, resulting in a captivating pastiche in which the verses are rendered in a variety of typefaces and accompanied by woodcuts, line drawings, and other black-and-white illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateAug 24, 2015
    ISBN9780486807300
    Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation: A Study in Typography
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    Willard Johnson

    Willard Glenn Johnson love sports. He played little league baseball at 8 years old and made the all star team. He had tremendous success when I went to college at 18 years of age. He was in the Urbana and Dayton papers for his achievement in basketball. Became a counselor for the Dayton Board of Education, he gave high school students jobs around the recreation center. W G Johnson shares to students his book and to learn from his downfalls. When you are having success with your dream athletically and educational, don’t be steered away from your dream. Johnson did graduate from college, and became a physical education teacher at Trotwood Madison and coach. He taught American History, Texas History, and Social Studies. He became a principal for four years. Whatever your dreams don’t give up, strive to reach your goal.

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      Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation - Willard Johnson

      Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation

      A STUDY IN TYPOGRAPHY

      Willard Johnson

      Introduction by

      Harry Miller Lydenberg

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      Mineola, New York

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1936. [First publication: Willard Johnson, Philadelphia, 1836.]

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Johnson, Willard.

      Peter Piper’s practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation : a study in typography / Willard Johnson ; Introduction by Harry Miller Lydenberg.

      pages cm

      Includes index.

      Originally published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1936.

      eISBN-13: 978-0-486-80730-0

      1. English language—Pronunciation. 2. Nursery rhymes. 3. Alphabet books. 4. Tongue twisters. 5. Alphabet. I. Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874–1960. II. Title.

      PE1137.J544 2015

      421’.52—dc23

      2015009128

      Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley

      80282501 2015

      www.doverpublications.com

      Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation

      A STUDY IN TYPOGRAPHY

      Designed by Bruce Rogers

      Set in Linotype Cloister, with Linotype (Cleland) Decorative Material

      [Original 1936 title page]

      INTRODUCTION

      BY

      HARRY MILLER LYDENBERG

      WILL YOU TELL ME, please, why we have this painless dentistry when it comes to book learning, but nowhere else?

      I’m not bright enough or swift enough ever to try for a plumber’s helper or an electrician’s assistant, or get a grudging assent to a work out for even a minor league team. But I have seen the plumber’s helper getting his instruction, and I fail to recall any words or acts from the plumber except a few decisive indications of an expectant and insistent assumption that the young gentleman would be ready with the Stillson when that particular wrench was needed, would pass it on because he knew what the plumber wanted, had got this knowledge at the hands of that best of all teachers, Dame Experience, and had appreciated it when safely stowed away as a man appreciates only those things he holds dear and acquires by the sweat of his brow.

      When it comes to books, however, particularly those that tell us how to read and write and learn other things in school, one of the most impressive things about them is the way they try to make this learning so sweetly alluring, simple, easy. The pill’s there all right, but the coating is thick, fascinating.

      To be sure, that’s just one more way of saying that the real teacher tries to use the yeast of interest to raise and

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