meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
You're Wrong About

The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Remember being a teen and coming up with “cool” ways of spelling common words? Well, just like the teenager it was, the United States in the 18th century was annoying their mom, England, with the hip words that were being edited and added to their lexicon. The antagonistic pair of nations on the brink of the Revolutionary War were always competing to prove their superiority and independence in small cultural battles, and words themselves were no different. Fellow word-nerd Gabe Henry, a...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

That sounds like a country song, doesn't it?

0:02.2

I ain't yet quite right for your orthography.

0:15.3

Welcome to Your Wrong About, the podcast where sometimes we talk about all of our favorite words. And with me today

0:23.1

is our guest, du jour, Gabe Henry, who is here to talk about the dictionary wars, which are

0:29.2

not as violent as they might sound, but very petty, which is better. Gabe has a book out now

0:34.6

called Enough is Enough, that second enough is spelled E NUF. You'll know why soon.

0:40.7

The subtitle is Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell. And this is a book that recently

0:46.4

made me chortle in an IKEA food court where I like to go to relax. As you know, or maybe you don't know, I have another show coming out right now from

0:56.5

CBC podcast. It's a mini series called The Devil You Know. It's about what else, the satanic

1:02.5

panic. And episode four is out this week. I really hope you check it out. I hope that you can find

1:10.1

some comfort in history and in learning about

1:12.9

the courageous people who have been living through moral panics a long time before this current

1:17.6

one. And I'm so happy to get to share this show with you. Speaking of things I'm excited to share

1:23.1

with you, we also have a fabulous bonus episode on the word origins of bimboes. See, we're getting really

1:30.8

wordy this month with our favorite bimbologist and our favorite podcaster, Jamie Loftus. And coming up,

1:39.5

we have the first of our survivalism Q&A episodes with our survival correspondent, The Amazing Blair Braverman.

1:49.1

And this is the show where we had people on Patreon ask their burning questions about how to

1:55.6

survive in every connotation of the word. And yes, we are going to talk about whether you can drink

2:00.4

your own pee.

2:01.6

Thank you so much for being here.

2:03.4

Thank you for journeying with us into the holidays.

2:07.1

Here's your episode.

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 15 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sarah Marshall, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sarah Marshall and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.