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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·4 months agoMy 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
minus-squareSc00ter@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoHow 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?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 months ago“Wih-men.” I think you’re thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.
minus-squareDr. Bluefall@toast.ooolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThat isn’t really consistent with English orthography. But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.
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
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?
“Wih-men.” I think you’re thinking of woman, the singular version of the word.
That isn’t really consistent with English orthography.
But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.