Re: Country names
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 12:36 |
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> > Obvious? In English? A language where one can findl orthography to make
> > _ghoti_ be pronounced [fIS]? :P
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>Only we can't. |gh| is a diagraph found only at the end of syllables, for
>a
>start. And is only [f] in the tesseragraphs(is that right?) |augh|[&f] and
>|ough| [Qf], and [Vf]. |o| is only pronounced [I] in |women], and |ti| is,
>again, only prounounced [S] in the tesseragraph |tion|[S@n].
Only you just did.
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