From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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Date: | Friday, April 16, 2004, 18:43 |
--- David Zitzelsberger <DavidZ@...> wrote:> 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. >Then we'll have to put it into context: "youghotion or just drownin' worms?" --gary