• Flying Squid
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    114 months ago

    My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”

    GH as in rouGH
    O as in wOmen
    TI as in raTIon

    • @Sc00ter@lemm.ee
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      34 months ago

      How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .

      Or do you say fish different than me?

      • Flying Squid
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        114 months ago

        “Wih-men.” I think you’re thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.

    • Dr. Bluefall
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      14 months ago

      That isn’t really consistent with English orthography.

      But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.