CLASSIC: Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet
CLASSIC: Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet  
Podcast: Ridiculous History
Published On: Tue Nov 07 2023
Description: "For such a popular, well-known language, English is full of strange, seemingly arbitrary rules. Most people just accept these various idiosyncrasies... but Benjamin Franklin was not most people. In today's classic, listen as Ben and Noel explore Franklin's strange quest to revise the English language by cutting out old letters (and inventing new ones)."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.