Re: HUMOUR: Pronounce This...

Hello,

> > Of course, one can never forget "GHOTI", pronounced [fiS].
> (I forgot who
> > invented this one, but it is constructed by taking "gh"
> from "enough", "o"
> > from "women", and "ti" from "nation".)
>
> George Bernard Shaw.  But of course this one is bogus:  GH is
> /f/ only when
> syllabic final, O is /I/ *only* in the word "women" and no other, and
> TI is /S/ only in -tion /S@n/.
But that has if course been rectified by Marc Okrand - _ghotI_ *is*
'fish' in Klingon :))

Pavel
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