tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 05 22:41:46 2002
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Re: fish joke
From: "Jim Fox-Davis" <firedrake@earthlink.net>
> Actually this is much more a play on the English phonetics, in which the
> phonene "gh" can be pronounced "f", the short "o" can be pronounced
> "ih", annd "ti" carries a "sh" sound, as in "addiTIon."
To make that clear:
gh as in enouGH ("f")
o as in wOmen ("i")
ti as in addiTIon ("sh")
Thus, "ghoti" is pronounced "fish."
SuStel
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