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