Re: Country names
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 5:57 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: Country names
> >No, everyone else can't say Australia properly, and it has a very
> >obvious pronunciation from its spelling :P
>
> 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].
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