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Did you know Benjamin Franklin invented his own alphabet? As did the Mormons. Many people have tried and failed to end the fiasco that is English spelling. In this video I explore five such attempts.
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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
1:01 The Mormon alphabet: Deseret
6:04 Benjamin Franklin's alphabet
12:10 The Global Alphabet
16:12 Unifon
20:39
Enjoy these failed attempts to reinvent English. And go to https://ground.news/robwords to see how language shapes our perspectives. Save 40% for unlimited access to the Vantage Plan through my link.
Did you know Benjamin Franklin invented his own alphabet? As did the Mormons. Many people have tried and failed to end the fiasco that is English spelling. In this video I explore five such attempts.
👕COOL TSHIRTS: robwords.com/shop
⭐️PATREON COMMUNITY: patreon.com/robwords
📝FREE NEWSLETTER: robwords.com/newsletter
Check me out on the web, on Twitter & TikTok:
robwords.com
https://x.com/robwordsYT
tiktok.com/@robwords
==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
1:01 The Mormon alphabet: Deseret
6:04 Benjamin Franklin's alphabet
12:10 The Global Alphabet
16:12 Unifon
20:39
![NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words were getting wrong](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XBVu4CjYZmo/mqdefault.jpg "NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words were getting wrong
Did you know an umpire should actually be a numpire?
Whats more... an apron should be a napron, an adder a nadder, a newt an ewt, and a nickname an ickname. This video explains why on earth that is.
For centuries, English scholars have been accidentally rebracketing words (its also known as metanalysis). Many of their mistakes have stuck in the language, meaning we continue to get these words wrong.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Numpire, napron & nadder
0:27 Explanation of rebracketing
1:20 Newt & nickname
1:44 Evidence in other languages
2:06 Errors that didnt catch on
2:24 Bye bye")
