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    Everyone knows what "ghoti" means, but what about "ghoughphtheightteeau"?

    Question #56256. Asked by achernar. (Mar 29 05 7:00 AM)


    Flynn_17

    		What DOES ghoti mean?

    Mar 29 05, 8:13 AM
    SOTHC

    		It is actually "ghoughpteighbteau" and is is pronounced Potato where P is the gh in hiccough (hiccup, O as ough in dough,T as pt in ptomaine, A as eigh in neigh, T as the bt in debt and O as the eau in plateau.
    GHOTI is pronounced FISH according to George Bernard Shaw

    Mar 29 05, 8:24 AM
    MaggieG 5

    		GH as in enouGH, O as in wOmen, and TI as in staTIon. Fish.

    Mar 29 05, 8:26 AM
    Flynn_17

    		Ah, OK.

    *sits in a corner confused*

    Mar 29 05, 10:55 AM
    achernar

    		Potato is correct.

    The letter-combination "phth" is pronounced like it is in "pthisis" a synonym of tuberculosis.

    Mar 29 05, 1:45 PM
    Flynn_17

    		I'm surprised George Bernard Shaw didn't have something better to do with his time that make this up. It's massively pointless.

    Mar 29 05, 3:27 PM
    MaggieG 5

    		It was done to highlight the inconsistencies of spelling in English. This site say that it probably wasn't him.

    http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html

    Mar 29 05, 3:35 PM
    gmackematix

    		Flynn, I have to ask. Why are you partaking in a trivia website and complaining about GBS's pointless activity? If he found it fun to do, it wasn't pointless was it, no more than your being here?

    Mar 29 05, 4:18 PM
    mibmob

    		is this above potato thing a GBS-ism too? Never heard of this?

    Mar 30 05, 10:00 AM

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