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SUMMARY:Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell with Author Gabe Henry
DESCRIPTION:Registration is required. Click this link to attend the virtual 
 event.\n\nHave you ever wondered why the English spelling of words is 
 sometimes… well… just weird? Come on a surprisingly hilarious journey 
 with us and author Gabe Henry through the history of the English language\, 
 while we discuss troublemakers like Mark Twain who broke all the rules. 
 \n\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\, daughter and laughter 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? \n\nIn the comic annals of 
 linguistic 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 
 countless 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).\n\nIn Enough is Enuf\, Gabe Henry humorously traces the “simplified 
 spelling movement” from medieval England to Revolutionary America\, from 
 the birth of standup comedy to contemporary pop music\, and explores its 
 lasting influence in words like color (without a U)\, plow (without -ugh)\, 
 and the iconic ’90s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Finally\, Henry 
 brings us to the digital age\, where the swift pace of online exchanges now 
 pushes us all 2ward simplification. \n\nRegister now for this informative 
 and entertaining conversation to find out why Gabe Henry thinks UR not a 
 bad speller\, the English language is. \n\nNot able to attend live? You can 
 access the recording for this event and all Online Author Series events on 
 our website shortly after they conclude.\n\nAbout the Author: Gabe Henry is 
 the author of three books including the poetry anthology Eating Salad 
 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 (“A Smattering of Haiku 
 for the Burnout Age”) and ranked one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 
 2022. Henry’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.\n\n\n\nThis event is generously sponsored by the Friends 
 of the Mountain View Library.
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyle Hval":MAILTO:kyle.hval@mountainview.gov
CATEGORIES:Author Talk
CONTACT;CN="Kyle Hval":MAILTO:kyle.hval@mountainview.gov
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