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Re: Country names

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 16:00
Joe wrote:

> From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
[...]
> > Obvious? In English? A language where one can findl orthography to > > make _ghoti_ be pronounced [fIS]? :P > > > > > 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].
Well, "ghoti" might not be a good example, but you get "gaol" pronounced /dZeIl/... -- Carlos Th

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