This was today's entry on my online calendar. No wonder it's so challenging to teach English!
Ghoti = Fish
The curious and counter-intuitive nature of the English language is splendidly illustrated in a joke misspelling of the word ‘fish’ usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw. The joke is that ‘fish’ could be spelled ‘ghoti’ for these reasons:
gh as in ‘cough’ • o as in ‘women’ • ti as in ‘nation’
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My brain refuses to let me look at that word and say "fish".
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