Re: Not phonetic but IN CONCLUSION
| From: | David Zitzelsberger <davidz@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 16, 2004, 18:26 |
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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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Shannon [mailto:fiziwig@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:39 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: Not phonetic but IN CONCLUSION
--- David Zitzelsberger <DavidZ@...> wrote:
> what is ghoti?
"gh" from "enough"
"o" from "women"
"ti" from "nation"
Thus "ghoti" spells "fish". I don't recall off hand
who first dramt that one up, but I'm inclined to guess
it was G.B. Shaw.
--gary
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