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Re: Not phonetic but IN CONCLUSION

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, April 17, 2004, 7:32
Quoting David Zitzelsberger <DavidZ@...>:

> gh can only represent the f sound if it is both following ou and at the of > the root word. > o in woman is a debatable > ti can only represent the sh sound if it is part of tion. > > So, say again, what is ghoti? Because its not fish by any stretch of our > abused orthography.
According to Mr Rosenfelder's interpretation of English spelling, it's oughta be "goatee". However, had I encountered as simply an unknown English word in a text, I'd probably rendered it as /gowtaj/, which doesn't seem to mean anything. "Go-tie"? Andreas

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Herman Miller <hmiller@...>