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\, \;daughte r \;and \;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 our spelling is so inconsistent\, why haven&rsquo\;t we t ried 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. This book is about t hem: Mark Twain\, Eliza Burnz\, Noah Webster\, Upton Sinclair\, Emma Dearb orn\, Theodore Roosevelt\, Benjamin Franklin\, and the countless other &ld quo\;simplified spellers&rdquo\; who\, for a time in their lives\, became fanatic about writing \;kof \;instead of \;cough\, \;tung& nbsp\;for \;tongue\, and \;fyzics \;for \;physics \;(a nd tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).
\n\;In \;Enough is Enuf\, Gabe Henry humorously traces the &ldquo\;simpl ified spelling movement&rdquo\; from medieval England to Revolutionary Ame rica\, from the birth of standup comedy to contemporary pop music\, and ex plores its lasting influence in words like \;color \;(without a&nb sp\;U)\, \;plow \;(without \;-ugh)\, and the iconic &rsquo\;90 s ballad &ldquo\;Nothing Compares 2 U.&rdquo\; Finally\, Henry brings us t o the digital age\, where the swift pace of online exchanges now pushes us all 2ward simplification. \;
\nRegister now for this informativ e and entertaining conversation to find out why Gabe Henry thinks UR not a bad speller\, the English language is. \;
\nAbout the Author: G abe Henry is the author of three books including the poetry anthology \;Eating Salad Drunk\, a humor collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld\, Bob Ode nkirk\, Mike Birbiglia\, Margaret Cho\, and other titans of comedy. \; Eating Salad Drunk \;was featured in \;The New Yorker \;in Feb ruary 2022 (&ldquo\;A Smattering of Haiku for the Burnout Age&rdquo\;) and ranked one of \;Vulture&rsquo\;s \;Best Comedy Books of 2022. Hen ry&rsquo\;s work has been published in \;TIME\, \;New York Magazin e\, \;The New Yorker\, the \;Weekly Humorist\, \;US News &\ ; World Report\, and more. He has spent more than a decade exploring the s trange and forgotten history of simplified spelling\, which\, by his own a dmission\, has only made him a worse speller. He lives and works in New Yo rk. Learn more at www.gabehenry.com.
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