The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 4 months agoYou can feel how cathartic this must have been for someonelemmy.worldimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoMy father used to tell me that ghoti was pronounced “fish.” GH as in rough, O as in women, TI as in ration.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoIt is phonetically how it works.
minus-squarelinuxgator@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYup. That’s a pretty common one to explain the whimsy of the English language
My father used to tell me that ghoti was pronounced “fish.”
GH as in rough,
O as in women,
TI as in ration.
That’s not how any of that works.
It is phonetically how it works.
Yup. That’s a pretty common one to explain the whimsy of the English language