Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

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.

Tristan