Re: Country names

Quoting Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>:


> Well, "ghoti" might not be a good example, but you get "gaol"
> pronounced
> /dZeIl/...
Well, "gaol" must surely be treated as an irreducible exception, on par
with "women". Every language which has been written more-or-less phonemically
for a long time is bound to accrete a few of these.

                                                         Andreas