Two Stories about Letter X, How It Got into the Alphabet — VOA Learning English
Topics: класика
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Introduction:
Today we tell two stories that come from Rootabaga Pigeons, a book for children by American writer Carl Sandburg.
Sandburg won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a history of President Abraham Lincoln.
His most famous poems are about Chicago where he worked as a reporter for a time.
Rootabaga Pigeons was published in 1923. The stories make liberal use of repetition and nonsense words. These tales use a mixture of poetic words and language linked to rural parts of America. Such words include oyster, the name of an ocean animal; ax, a tool used to split wood and timber, wood that is used in building.
Sandburg wrote three stories about how the letter “x” got…
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