On Beyond Zebra!
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| Author | Dr. Seuss |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | 1955 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and paperback) |
| OCLC | 7715159 |
| Preceded by | Horton Hears a Who! |
| Followed by | If I Ran the Circus |
On Beyond Zebra![1] is a classic illustrated children's book by Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. This book fits into the genre of literary nonsense. The young narrator, not content with the confines of the ordinary alphabet, invents additional letters beyond Z, with a fantastic creature corresponding to each new letter. The creatures include favorites such as the Floobooberbabooberbubs, large buoyant heads which float serenely in the water. These naturally serve as the example for the letter "Floob".
Most of his letters look like monograms of their names. In order, these are named Yuzz, Wum, Um, Humpf, Fuddle, Glikk, Nuh, Snee, Quan, Thnad, Spazz, Floob, Zatz, Jogg, Flunn, Itch, Yekk, Vroo, and Hi. The book ends with an unnamed "letter" that apparently is a monogram of all 26 letters in the existing alphabet. It is left as an exercise in naming for the reader.
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The names of four of these resemble words in German or Yiddish: "Glikk" is glück, meaning luck; "Nuh" is the interjection, nu?; "Zatz" would be an Americanized spelling of the word Satz (Satzfehler is German for a printer's mistake); "Yekk" is like yecch, an interjection of disgust.
There is an unofficial assignment of Unicode code points to these letters.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ (1990) On Beyond Zebra!. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-80084-2.
- ^ Unofficial Unicode encoding for the "Seussian Latin Extensions".
