• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”

    GH as in rouGH
    O as in wOmen
    TI as in raTIon

    • Sc00ter@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .

      Or do you say fish different than me?