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Re: Puns I've noticed (I think)

• From: Quvar valer (Lieven) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Puns I've noticed (I think)
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:19:12 +0200
• In-Reply-To: <a05200f09bb1185fca722@[216.80.74.177]>

Russ Perry Jr   :

>Basically, Shaw was ridiculing English spelling, in that it's not
>phonetic (well, a one-to-one match between the characters and the
>pronunciation).  He gives the separate sounds for gh, o & ti as a
>possibility of spelling "fish", given that those sounds are given
>by those spellings.

Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for the explanation!
DaH lut naQqu' vISov. Now I know the /whole/ story.

Quvar.

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