Re: OT: English and schizophrenia
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 5, 2001, 4:31 |
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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.
And to further confuse matters, -tion is [-tS@n] in "question".
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