4 definitions by Crihn Bowonib
a word used to make fun of english spelling.
"gh" sometimes makes a /f/ sound as in tough
"o" sometimes makes a /ɪ/ sound as in women
"ti" sometimes make a /ʃ/ sound as in nation
put it all together and ghoti is pronounced /fɪʃ/.
what people don't realize is that this doesn't even make sense with english's normal phonotactic rules. "gh" is never /f/ word-initially and "ti" is never /ʃ/ without a vowel after it. so this doesn't work.
"gh" sometimes makes a /f/ sound as in tough
"o" sometimes makes a /ɪ/ sound as in women
"ti" sometimes make a /ʃ/ sound as in nation
put it all together and ghoti is pronounced /fɪʃ/.
what people don't realize is that this doesn't even make sense with english's normal phonotactic rules. "gh" is never /f/ word-initially and "ti" is never /ʃ/ without a vowel after it. so this doesn't work.
person 1: ghoti is pronounced fish english spelling bad hurhur
person 2: that's not how english spelling works.
person 2: that's not how english spelling works.
by Crihn Bowonib May 10, 2021
a phrase that angers prescriptivists. apparently people hate this idiom because it means the exact opposite of what it means if you take it literally. but that's the problem, you're taking idioms literally and expecting them to be logical. that's not how idioms work.
person 1: i could care less
person 2: you mean "i couldn't care less"? "i could care less" means that you do care to some extent. learn english lul
person 1: apparently you do not know how idioms work.
person 2: it's not an idiom it's a phrase made up by the uneducated english speakers who don't know how to speak their language lululul my variety of language is clearly superior to others
person 1: ok prescriptivist
person 2: you mean "i couldn't care less"? "i could care less" means that you do care to some extent. learn english lul
person 1: apparently you do not know how idioms work.
person 2: it's not an idiom it's a phrase made up by the uneducated english speakers who don't know how to speak their language lululul my variety of language is clearly superior to others
person 1: ok prescriptivist
by Crihn Bowonib May 6, 2021
by Crihn Bowonib May 13, 2021