Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Thursday 16 January 2014

Ghoti



George Bernard Shaw pointed out that FISH in English could be spelled
GHOTI :  Gh as in cough; o as in women; ti as in nation.

Unlike Irish, English has had no systematic spelling reform,
except for a rather childish, aborted attempt in the US,
when humour became humor, and axe became ax, etc.

1 comment:

Zoidberg said...

Project Unspell aims to change that. :)