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CLASSIC: Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:29:03
Publish Date: 2023-11-07 12:00:00
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"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)."

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