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📖 **Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling**

Matthew Cantor

“_In his amusing and enlightening new book, Gabe Henry traces the history of these efforts, beginning with a 12th-century monk named Orrmin, continuing through the beginnings of American English and the movement’s 19th-century heyday, finally arriving at textspeak._”

🔗 theguardian.com/books/2025/apr.

#Nonfiction #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #English #Language #Linguistics @bookstodon @linguistics

Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling

Philadelphia’s Speling Reform Asoshiashun wasn’t the…

The Guardian
Apr 23, 2025, 21:25 · · · 0 · 0
jdmccafferty

23 Apr feast of St. George. Happy feast day #English followers.

It was declared a ‘greater double’ - a feast free from work in 1413.

(A 14thC George & Dragon, Met Museum)

Apr 23, 2025, 09:32 · · 0 · 0
SPIRIT(スピリット)

I've written English in X(former Twitter), made the video of speaking English, and written English in my blog.
But it feels insufficient to me.
#English #tweeting #language #LanguageLearning #EnglishLearning

Apr 23, 2025, 01:54 · · 0 · 0
Lex

@ancientsounds @linguistics This is one of the difficulties of developing outside of #English - there's just not the same amount of tooling

Apr 23, 2025, 00:45 · · 1 · 0
SPIRIT(スピリット)

This is the video of my speaking English.
Mr. Okamoto Taro said,
“Everyone expects others, and they only say ‘Why don’t the hero appear?’
Nobody says ‘I’m the one.’”
#quote #quotes #OkamotoTaro #English #EnglishSpeaking #language #languagelearning

Apr 22, 2025, 22:27 · · 0 · 0
SPIRIT(スピリット)

This is the video of my speaking English.
My father recommended me to introduce Zuihouden Shrine in Sendai more than Hakkenden.
I’ve thought Zuihouden shrine has been already famous in the world.
#video #English #englishlearning #language #LanguageLearning

Apr 22, 2025, 21:39 · · 0 · 0
Dianora (Diane Bruce)

You can have a building raised,
but it's destroyed when razed.

English, I love you.

#English #Language

Apr 22, 2025, 20:19 · · 1 · 0
Day Use X Mockin' Uh

So, "Paper Towel" is a proper noun in English but not in Spanish… huh?

#English #Spanish #Grammar #Sign #Signs

"Please Do not put gum, chewing tobacco, or Paper Towels in the urinal or toilet. Thank you RoadRunner" And then the same thing again in Spanish, I would assume.
Apr 22, 2025, 15:42 · · 1 · 0
jdmccafferty

22 Apr 1616: d. Miguel de Cervantes in #Madrid #otd His Don Quixote is one of the most translated books ever. The first translation into any other language was to #English by Thomas Shelton of #Dublin

Apr 22, 2025, 13:37 · · 0 · 0

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