Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

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.

(If I felt like being evil, I might say that "ti" is also /S/ in "ghoti".)

Of course everyone knows final "ti" is just /s/, as in <Kiribati>.  (So
instead of <ghoti> "fish", you have <oughoti> "office")


    *Muke!

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