Anyone who has the misfortune to write in English will\, every now and then\, struggle with its spelling. In our err atic system\, choir and liar rhyme\, daughter a nd laughter don&rsquo\;t\, and somehow you and ewe can&rsquo\;t agree on a single letter. So why do we still use it? If o ur spelling is so inconsistent\, why haven&rsquo\;t we tried to fix it?&nb sp\;
\nIn the comic annals of linguistic history\, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill of spelling reform\, risking their reputa tions to simplify English spelling. This book is about them: Mark Twain\, Eliza Burnz\, Noah Webster\, Upton Sinclair\, Emma Dearborn\, Theodore Roo sevelt\, Benjamin Franklin\, and the countless other &ldquo\;simplified sp ellers&rdquo\; who\, for a time in their lives\, became fanatic about writ ing kof instead of cough\, tung for tongue< /em>\, and fyzics for physics (and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).
\nIn Enough is Enuf\, Gabe Henry humorously traces the &ldquo\;simplified spelling movement&rdqu o\; from medieval England to Revolutionary America\, from the birth of sta ndup comedy to contemporary pop music\, and explores its lasting influence in words like color (without a U)\, plow (with out -ugh)\, and the iconic &rsquo\;90s ballad &ldquo\;Nothing Com pares 2 U.&rdquo\; Finally\, Henry brings us to the digital age\, where th e swift pace of online exchanges now pushes us all 2ward simplification.&n bsp\;
\nRegister now for this informative and entertaining conversat ion to find out why Gabe Henry thinks UR not a bad speller\, the English l anguage is. \;
\nAbout the Author: Gabe Henry i s the author of three books including the poetry anthology Eating Sala d Drunk\, a humor collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld\, Bob Odenkirk\, Mike Birbiglia\, Margaret Cho\, and other titans of comedy. Eating Sal ad Drunk was featured in The New Yorker in February 2022 (&l dquo\;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\, the Weekly Humorist\, US News &\; World Report\, and more. He has spent more than a decade exploring the strange and forgotten history of simplified spelling\, which\, by his own admission\, has only made him a worse speller. He lives and works in New York. Learn more at www.gabehenry.com.
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