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\nHave yo u ever wondered why the spelling of words in English is sometimes just\, w ell\, weird? Come on a surprisingly hilarious journey through the history of the English language author Gabe Henry to discuss troublemakers like Ma rk Twain who broke all the rules.
\nAnyone who has the misfortune to write in English will\, every now and then\, struggle with its spelling. In our erratic system\, "choir" and "liar" rhyme\, but "daughter" and "lau ghter" don't\, and somehow "you" and "ewe" can't agree on a single letter. So why do we still use it? If our spelling is so inconsistent\, why haven '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\, ri sking their reputations to simplify English spelling. Gabe Henry's book "< a href="https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C910892">Enough Is Enu f" is about them: Mark Twain\, Eliza Burnz\, Noah Webster\, Upton Sinc lair\, Emma Dearborn\, Theodore Roosevelt\, Benjamin Franklin and the coun tless other "simplified spellers" who\, for a time in their lives\, became fanatic about 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\," Henry humorously traces the "s implified spelling movement" from medieval England to Revolutionary Americ a\, from the birth of stand-up comedy to contemporary pop music\, and expl ores its lasting influence in words like "color" (without a "u")\, "plow" (without "-ugh") and the iconic '90s ballad "Nothing Compares 2 U." Finall y\, Henry brings us to the digital age\, where the swift pace of online ex changes now pushes us all "2ward" simplification.
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\nAbout the Author: Gabe Henry is the author of three books including the poetry anthology "Ea ting Salad Drunk\," a humor collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld\, Bob Odenki rk\, Mike Birbiglia\, Margaret Cho and other titans of comedy. "Eating Sal ad Drunk" was featured in The New Yorker in February 2022 ("A Smattering o f Haiku for the Burnout Age") and ranked one of Vulture's Best Comedy Book s of 2022. Henry's work has been published in TIME\, New York Magazine\, T he New Yorker\, the Weekly Humorist\, US News &\; World Report and more . He has spent more than a decade exploring the strange and forgotten hist ory 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.
\nThis event is part of DBRL's Online Author Series\, supported by David Lile honorarium funds. A recording will also be av ailable for later viewing on the author series site.
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