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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Spelling and pronounciation are often not particularly congruent. A snippet I always remember which I read in a Bill Bryson book ('Mother Tongue' I believe, although I think he quoted it from elsewhere) is that FISH could be logically spelt GHOTI, as in:
The GH sound from 'enough'
The O sound from 'women'
The TI sound from 'nation'
What a great language!
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Just googled it after posting - Bryson was quoting Bernard Shaw.