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