Have you ever wondered why the English spe lling of words is sometimes&hellip\; well&hellip\; just \;weird? \ ;Come on a surprisingly hilarious journey with us and author Gabe Henry th rough the history of the English language\, while we discuss troublemakers like Mark Twain who broke all the rules.
\nAnyone who has the misfo rtune to write in English will\, every now and then\, struggle with its sp elling. In our erratic system\, \;choir \;and \;liar \;rhy me\, \;daughter \;and \;laughter \;don&rsquo\;t\, and some how \;you \;and \;ewe \;can&rsquo\;t agree on a single let ter. So why do we still use it? If our spelling is so inconsistent\, why h aven&rsquo\;t we tried to fix it?
\nIn the comic annals of linguisti c 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 Twain\, Eliza Burnz\, Noah Webster\, Upton Sinclair\, Emma Dearborn\, Theodore Roosevelt\, Benjamin Franklin\, and the countles s other &ldquo\;simplified spellers&rdquo\; who\, for a time in their live s\, became fanatic about writing \;kof \;instead of \;cough\,& nbsp\;tung \;for \;tongue\, and \;fyzics \;for \;physi cs \;(and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).
\nIn \;Enough is Enuf\, Gabe Henry humorously traces the &ldquo\;s implified spelling movement&rdquo\; from medieval England to Revolutionary America\, from the birth of standup comedy to contemporary pop music\, an d explores its lasting influence in words like \;color \;(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 exchanges now pushe s us all 2ward simplification.
\nRegister now for this informative a nd entertaining conversation to find out why Gabe Henry thinks UR not a ba d speller\, the English language is.
\nAbout the Author
Gabe He
nry is the author of three books including the poetry anthology Eating Sal
ad Drunk\, a humor collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld\, Bob Odenkirk\, Mike
Birbiglia\, Margaret Cho\, and other titans of comedy. \;Eating Salad
Drunk \;was featured in \;The New Yorker \;in February 2022 (
&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\, \;Th
e New Yorker\, the \;Weekly Humorist\, \;US News &\; World Repo
rt\, and more. He has spent more than a decade exploring the strange and f
orgotten history of simplified spelling\, which\, by his own admission\, h
as only made him a worse speller. He lives and works in New York. Learn mo
re at www.gabehenry.com.