Author of ENOUGH IS ENUF: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell (April 2025 @DeyStreet) and EATING SALAD DRUNK (a @Vulture Best Comedy Book).
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On the show today; Riona O'Connor on bikini reviews; Tom Kopke on chasing cheese; @KirstyBlakeKnox on panic packing; @_GabeHenry on weird spelling; @BeerMessiah with beer; Fionnuala Jones with Showbiz News; @deirdremolumby reviews 'The Salt Path' & 'Bono: Stories of Surrender'
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In this interview, author Gabe Henry discusses the 15-year process of his new history book, Enough is Enuf. #WDAuthorSpotlight
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I rivyood a kupl uv fun buks abowt thee Inglish langwij nytimes.com/2025/04/15/books…
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If you pick up a @nytimes today, have a look at the books section. I’ve got a fun piece in it about spelling reforms.
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📣 New Podcast! "Be You Spell Your Words The Way You Hear Them Gabe Henry's Enough Is Enuf" on @Spreaker spreaker.com/episode/be-you-…
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How would you fix English spelling? Put your suggestions in comments, and let's hope we don't break everything.
Our upcoming episode is with @_GabeHenry, author of "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" from @deystreet
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What do Benjamin Franklin, Noah Webster, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Carnegie have in common?
They all tried, and failed, to simplify English spelling.
I dive into this weird history with @_GabeHenry, author of "Enough is Enuf," in my latest article.
Honored to be mentioned in the same breath as @JohnHMcWhorter. Particularly if that breath comes from the incredible @sapinker.
Two interesting new books on language: One on spelling, one on pronouns (the lattter by @JohnHMcWhorter) nytimes.com/2025/04/15/books…
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Thanks to @_GabeHenry for talking with me about Enough is Enuf for New Books in Pop Culture. I loved the book and interview and still can't spell. @NewBooksNetwork
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ENOUGH IS ENUF by @_GabeHenry is a “smart, lighthearted chronicle of the simplified spelling. It’s fitting that our guide through this history is a humorist.” –Wall Street Journal (@WSJ)
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ENOUGH IS ENUF by @_GabeHenry is “…a rich and engaging history of the attempts, from the 16th century to the present day, to bring written English into line with the way we speak.” –New York Times (@nytimes)
Read more: nytimes.com/2025/04/15/books…
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.@_GabeHenry considers the creative intentions and class-based undertones behind phonetic writing in early American comedy.
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Happy pub day to ENOUGH IS ENUF by Gabe Henry! 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. tinyurl.com/7n22kfsk
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.@_GabeHenry asks why we haven’t standardized English spelling, phoneticized it, and brought it into line: time.com/7277659/english-spe…
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How did English spelling get so tricky? @_GabeHenry's ENOUGH IS ENUF unravels 500 years of reform attempts with humor and insight.
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Did you know shorthand spelling helped foster female empowerment?
Read more from @_GabeHenry, author of ENOUGH IS ENUF, in @HISTORY: history.com/articles/suprisi…
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“Anyone who has the misfortune to write in English” has struggled with its spelling, quips Gabe Henry in this amusing overview of historical attempts to bring order to the madness. It’s a delight. @deystreet buff.ly/434JRAs
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