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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Teddy Roosevelt Tried To Change How We Spell Words
Description: Today in 1906 a vote in Congress put an end to one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s top priorities: simplifying the way we spell words. Or, as he would have preferred, spel wurds. Plus: around this time of year a zoo in Japan starts offering warm water baths to their capybaras.
Teddy Roosevelt’s Bold (But Doomed) Battle to Change American Spelling (History.com)
Birthplace of the Capybara Hot Bath Celebrates 40 years of Rodent Relaxation (Spoon + Tamago)Â
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