31 Jan
2013
31 Jan
'13
11:43 p.m.
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:07 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
My copy of this is back in the mid-90s:
Vy Knot?
George Bernard Shaw left money in his will to promote the rationalization of English spelling, but to no avail. One of his well-known examples was the word ghoti:
gh as in enough o as in women ti as in station
giving us the pronunciation "fish".
Rules of grammar and spelling are about convention, not logic. Breaking the convention makes things harder to understand. That's really my only point.
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