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.
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