Re: Not phonetic but IN CONCLUSION

youghotion - very good.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Shannon [mailto:fiziwig@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:43 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: Not phonetic but IN CONCLUSION


--- 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