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Which Letters Did Benjamin Franklin Plan To Get Rid Of When He Tried To Revise The Alphabet?
One of the United State’s most well-known founding fathers was an invetrate inventor and tinkerer who even wanted to change the English alphabet
Benjamin Franklin was a fountain of innovation during his remarkable life sandwiched around the birth of the United States. His intellect and propensity for invention contributed to a number of ideas that are still used to this day. However, something he worked on that was not adopted like so many other aspects of his brilliance was a revised English alphabet where he planned to get rid of six of the 26 letters and replace them with six brand new ones.
Born in Boston in 1706, Franklin moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a young man where he worked initially as a printer. His cleverness as a writer and scholar built his reputation and eventually made him into a well-known public figure. During his career, he served as the Postmaster General for British America, the first American Postmaster General, Minister to France and Sweden, and Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He was also a voracious mind who put his thoughts to practice, inventing bifocal glasses, lightning rods, a urinary catheter, a stove and swimming fins among…
