Anyone who h as the misfortune to write in English will\, every now and then\, struggle with its spelling. In our erratic system\, choir and liar rhyme\, daughte r and laughter don&rsquo\;t\, and somehow you and ewe can&rsquo\;t agree o n a single letter. So why do we still use it? If our spelling is so incons istent\, why haven&rsquo\;t we tried to fix it? \;
\nIn the comic annals of linguistic history\, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill of spelling reform\, risking their reputations to simplify English spelling. This book is about them: Mark Tw ain\, Eliza Burnz\, Noah Webster\, Upton Sinclair\, Emma Dearborn\, Theodo re Roosevelt\, Benjamin Franklin\, and the countless other &ldquo\;simplif ied spellers&rdquo\; who\, for a time in their lives\, became fanatic abou t writing kof instead of cough\, tung for tongue\, and fyzics for physics (and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).
\nIn Enough is Enuf\, Gabe Henry humorou sly traces the &ldquo\;simplified spelling movement&rdquo\; from medieval England to Revolutionary America\, from the birth of standup comedy to con temporary pop music\, and explores its lasting influence in words like col or (without a U)\, plow (without -ugh)\, and the iconic &rsquo\;90s ballad &ldquo\;Nothing Compares 2 U.&rdquo\; Finally\, Henry brings us to the di gital age\, where the swift pace of online exchanges now pushes us all 2wa rd simplification. \;
\nRegister n ow for this informative and entertaining conversation to find out why Gabe Henry thinks UR not a bad speller\, the English language is. \;
\nAbout the Author: Gabe H enry is the author of three books including the poetry anthology Eatin g Salad Drunk\, a humor collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld\, Bob Odenk irk\, Mike Birbiglia\, Margaret Cho\, and other titans of comedy. Eati ng Salad Drunk was featured in The New Yorker in February 20 22 (&ldquo\;A Smattering of Haiku for the Burnout Age&rdquo\;) and ranked one of Vulture&rsquo\;s Best Comedy Books of 2022. Henry&rsquo\;s work has been published in TIME\, New York Magazine\, The New Yorker< /em>\, the Weekly Humorist\, US News &\; World Report\, and mo re. He has spent more than a decade exploring the strange and forgotten hi story of simplified spelling\, which\, by his own admission\, has only mad e him a worse speller. He lives and works in New York. Learn more at www.gabehen ry.com.
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