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Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

By Gabe Henry
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Unabridged — 5 hours, 49 minutes
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By Gabe Henry
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Unabridged — 5 hours, 49 minutes
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A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.

Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it?Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, at one time or another, struggled with its spelling.

So why do we continue to use it? If our sys...