Re: English Spelling

From: mg (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 07:07:07 EST


Arsa Robert A. Rosenberg:

> I forget who perpetrated it but someone (using different ways of spelling
> the required pronunciation) came up with GHOTI as the "correct" spelling of
> the word "FISH" (GH as in TOUGH, I as in ?, etc) in an essay on the odd
> spelling of English Words.

George Bernard Shaw scripsit, I believe.

Marion Gunn
Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.indigo.ie/egt/>



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