# "Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much." Protestors at the Washington DC Spelling Bee

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**Created:** [June 4, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enuf-is-enuf-enough-is-too-much-protestors-at-the-washington-dc-spelling-bee/541913 "2010-06-04T12:27:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enuf-is-enuf-enough-is-too-much-protestors-at-the-washington-dc-spelling-bee/541913/61 "2010-10-17T19:07:56Z")

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> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
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> > [@blindboyard](#):
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> > This is exactly how Americans came to misspell “colour” and similar words. As it isn’t broke, don’t break it.
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> Thank you, William Randolph Hearst, for giving the rest of the English-speaking world something obvious to look down their noses at Americans for, in perpetuity.

The color / colour thing happened before William Randolph Hearst was born.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enuf-is-enuf-enough-is-too-much-protestors-at-the-washington-dc-spelling-bee/541913/62 "2010-10-18T09:24:38Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> You people have it all backward. It’s not spelling that’s too complicated. It’s pronunciation that’s too simple.
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> “Enough” should be pronounced E-no-ug-h. 😛

Would that lone h be mute or aspirated?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enuf-is-enuf-enough-is-too-much-protestors-at-the-washington-dc-spelling-bee/541913/63 "2010-10-18T12:35:14Z")

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