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Re: language (was Quartz/Halogen incandescent bulbs)



At 02:58 AM 2/14/00 -0800, Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Sees write:
Strange, I'd heard that English was considerably harder to learn than the
Romance languages. English's spelling and pronunciation rules are
observed "more in the breach." It's a mishmash of other languages.


There is a well known example usually ascribed to George Bernard Shaw,
in which he says that the combination of letters

"ghoti"

should be pronounced "fish".

You get this pronunciation from the sounds of the letters in "ghoti" in the
words

enough
^^
women
^
nation
^^

regards,

sarma.