Benjamin Franklin was always coming up with new ideas. His mind was wired to invent, which gave the world bifocals, the lightning rod, an improved catheter (no, seriously), and … a failed alphabet. Franklin, who liked life to be as logical as possible, thought that this was redundant, unnecessary.
This is why Franklin’s new American alphabet cut out C, J, Q, W, X, and (not sometimes, all the times) Y. In his mind, why would the letter c exist when there were already letters that could cover the hard and soft sounds unambiguously? His alphabet was not only about taking letters away, though. He also added a few of his own to turn sounds like “th” into single characters.
Franklin’s new alphabet was finally published in 1789, in a piece he titled ‘A Reformed Mode of Spelling’ – which he was only able to do after specially commissioning a typesetter to forge metal type of the new characters he had created.
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Speaking of pickles, I took my wife with me to go grocery shopping last week, and when we got home, she started putting stuff away. I saw her look quizzingly at a jar of pickles and then she popped the top off, put it back on, and put it in the fridge. She had just read the label on the jar. Like I've mentioned, she's not exactly a 'foodie'...
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Overtime wages and tips, which are treated like regular wages with federal and state income taxes, Social Security and Medicare withholding, would not be taxed if Trump's 'Big Badass Bill' passes.
It will also raise the National Debt 5 trillion smackaroos...
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Can a million dollar home really be called a "starter"?
ReplyDeleteA million dollat "starter home' is a very good example of how much the dollar's purchasing power has been destroyed (stolen) by the crooks and nincompoops in congress over the last 75 years. In the 1950s a Hershey bar was 5¢, today a Hershey bar costs $1.30 or more - thats 26 times the 1950s price.
DeleteInstead of complaining about the debt we focus on unnecessary spending that makes taxing tips and everything else the go to answer for every pol ever elected.
ReplyDeleteIf we got rid of the c our words would look like German. And what would we call women like aoc and Hillary?
ReplyDeleteThe canned mackerel at Lidl is excellent ! Not as bland as canned tuna, not as fishy as sardines .
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