Gabe Henry

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Gabe Henry is the author of three books including the poetry anthology "Eating Salad Drunk" (Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2022), a humor collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld, Margaret Cho, Ray Romano, Mike Birbiglia, Janeane Garofalo, Roy Wood Jr., Michael Ian Black, Bob Odenkirk, George Wallace, Maria Bamford, and other titans of comedy.​

His forthcoming book, "Enough is Enuf" (HarperCollins), is about the little-known "Simplified Spelling Movement" and its many (failed) attempts to change "through" to "thru," "laugh" to "laf," and "enough to enuf" (tu naim a few) in an effort to pare down all words to their simplest spelling.
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Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry
"As someone who has struggled with spelling my entire life, this book intrigued me. I’m not the only one that thinks spelling was a waste of good time and has wanted desperately to simplify the spelling process.
From monks, Benjamin Franklin to Prince" Read more of this review »
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"I greatly enjoyed this thoroughly researched and well-written look back at the many attempts to tame our language's many peculiarities. I had no idea there had been so many different plans and methods invented. I particularly liked the passages writt" Read more of this review »
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“If simplified spelling could (in the right hands) become a tool for social change, it could also (in the wrong hands) become a weapon against it.”
Gabe Henry, Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell

“Emoji comes from the Japanese words e (“picture”) and moji (“character”).*”
Gabe Henry, Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell

“When a group finds itself on the fringes of society, language can be a powerful way to define its identity and solidarity.”
Gabe Henry, Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell

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