Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

At 12:35 am -0400 5/8/01, Roger Mills wrote:
>Tristan wrote:
>
>
>>At 01:37 PM 5/08/2001, you wrote:
>>>From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
>>> > > In fact, the author George Bernard Shaw once spelled "fish" like
>this:
>>>GHOTI. GH
>>> > > from "cough", O from "women", TI from "nation".
>>> >
>>> > Humph.  GH is never /f/ initial, the spelling of "women" is unique, and
>>> > "ti" is /S/ *only* in "-tion".  Hardly a fair example.
>>>
>>>"ti" is /S/ in "-tial" (martial, partial, "initial") and also "tian"
>>>(Martian, Aleutian), but always (I think) with a following vowel.
>>
>>Appreciation, differentiation
>>
>>But still with the vowel. The rule is more like with -tia- or -tio-, I
>think.
>
Patio?

Ray.

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