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Old 03-02-2010, 12:07 PM   #8114
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
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!


Maybe we should form a club for proper English speaking folks.

We could call it the "I Before E Except After C Society".
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