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\nHave you ever wondered why the English spelling of words is sometimes&hellip\; well&hellip\; just \;weird? \;Come on a surprisingly hilarious journey with us and author Gabe Henry through th e history of the English language\, while we discuss troublemakers like Ma rk Twain who broke all the rules. \;
\nAnyone who has the misfor tune to write in English will\, every now and then\, struggle with its spe lling. In our erratic system\, \;choir \;and \;liar \;rhym e\, \;daughter \;and \;laughter \;don&rsquo\;t\, and someh ow \;you \;and \;ewe \;can&rsquo\;t agree on a single lett er. So why do we still use it? If our spelling is so inconsistent\, why ha ven&rsquo\;t we tried to fix it? \;
\nIn the comic annals of lin guistic history\, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill of spe lling reform\, risking their reputations to simplify English spelling. Thi s book is about them: Mark Twain\, Eliza Burnz\, Noah Webster\, Upton Sinc lair\, Emma Dearborn\, Theodore Roosevelt\, Benjamin Franklin\, and the co untless other &ldquo\;simplified spellers&rdquo\; who\, for a time in thei r lives\, became fanatic about writing \;kof \;instead of \;co ugh\, \;tung \;for \;tongue\, and \;fyzics \;for \ ;physics \;(and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it to o).
\n\;In \;Enough is Enuf\, Gabe Henry humorously traces the &ldquo\;simplified spelling movement&rdquo\; from medieval England to Revolutionary America\, from the birth of standup comedy to contemporary p op music\, and explores its lasting influence in words like \;color&nb sp\;(without a \;U)\, \;plow \;(without \;-ugh)\, and the iconic &rsquo\;90s ballad &ldquo\;Nothing Compares 2 U.&rdquo\; Finally\, Henry brings us to the digital age\, where the swift pace of online exchan ges now pushes us all 2ward simplification. \;
\nRegister now fo r this informative and entertaining conversation to find out why Gabe Henr y thinks UR not a bad speller\, the English language is. \;
\nAb out the Author: Gabe Henry is the author of three books including the poet ry anthology \;Eating Salad Drunk\, a humor collaboration with Jerry S einfeld\, Bob Odenkirk\, Mike Birbiglia\, Margaret Cho\, and other titans of comedy. \;Eating Salad Drunk \;was featured in \;The New Yo rker \;in February 2022 (&ldquo\;A Smattering of Haiku for the Burnout Age&rdquo\;) and ranked one of \;Vulture&rsquo\;s \;Best Comedy B ooks of 2022. Henry&rsquo\;s work has been published in \;TIME\, \ ;New York Magazine\, \;The New Yorker\, the \;Weekly Humorist\,&nb sp\;US News &\; World Report\, and more. He has spent more than a decad e exploring the strange and forgotten history of simplified spelling\, whi ch\, by his own admission\, has only made him a worse speller. He lives an d works in New York. Learn more at www.gabehenry.com.
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