Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance Numbers - ISBN:0671742817

Zero to Lazy Eight: The Romance Numbers

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From Publishers Weekly
"Take five," "behind the eight ball" and "looking out for number one" are phrases that suggest how deeply ingrained numbers are in our daily thought. Combining irreverent wit and erudition, this enjoyable smorgasbord of number lore explains the origins of dozens of phrases, while also tracing hundreds of word origins, from "abundant" to "zip code" (Zone Improvement Program). Each chapter centers on an integer from zero to 13, with a final chapter on infinity (whose symbol is a "lazy eight" in cowherd branding lingo). The authors, though, freely head off on multiple tangents to delve into left-handedness, mistaken identities, colonial American weights and currencies, internal body rhythms, creation myths, notions of the afterlife, clothing sizes and much else. The Humezes ( Alpha to Omega ) and freelancer Maguire cram an astonishing array of facts and lore into their excursion.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Earlier works by Alexander and Nicholas Humez were alphabet books for grownups ( ABC Et Cetera , LJ 11/1/85; Alpha to Omega , LJ 7/81), and this is a kind of counting book for grownups. The entertaining free-form essays on numbers 1 through 13 (plus zero and infinity) discuss the linguistic roots of numerical expressions and related folklore, idioms, and mathematical diversions. For instance, the chapter on number 6 starts with the expression "six of one and half a dozen of the other" and goes on to discuss ways of talking about symmetry and equality, puns and jokes (linguistic mapping), mathematical mapping, set theory, syllogisms, and socialism. This book is fun to read, and it contributes a linguistic angle to the idea of numeracy, but given its approach, promoting it as a reference book is a mistake. Newbridge Book Club alternate.
- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.

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