English spelling for beginners...

Johnny J

If GH can stand for P as in ‘hiccough’, If OUGH can stand for O as in ‘dough’, If PHTH can stand for T as in ‘phthisis’, If EIGH can stand for A as in ‘neighbour’, If TTE can stand for T as in ‘gazette’, If EAU can stand for O as in ‘plateau’, then the correct way to spell 'potato' would be: GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU :rolleyes:

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CodeWraith

Please wait here. I left my torch and my pitchfork at home and will be right back.

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Lost User

Though the tough cough hiccough plough me through O'er life's rough lough my thorough course I'll hew Or ought to.

OriginalGriff

That's just the Welsh for potato.* * only kidding - it's "tatws", pronounced "tatoes"

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Johnny J

I wouldn't know - I'm not in the habit of welching on people... :doh:

Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Forogar

Similarly, the correct way to spell "fish" is GHOTI.

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Slacker007

Exactly. English, has been misspelled now, for hundreds of years, both by British and American citizenry. Perhaps things will change, now that the truth is being told. You know, I used to have arguments with the college professors for years, about these misspellings. They always threatened me with violence and public shaming, if I went public with these secrets. :sigh:

Quirkafleeg

Why does do not sound like no? Suffix a 'w' and it sounds like now, Then prefix a 'k' and it returns to know, Could the inventor please take a bow?

Lost User

Quirkafleeg wrote:

Could the inventor please take a bow?

... or tie a bow.

Al Escobar

Similarly I once read that Fish could also be spelled as GHOTI. GH sounds as F like in enough O sounds like E as in women TI sounds like sh as in nation. No wonder how many of my neighbors find it difficult to read in English! sheesh!

Lutoslaw

I learnt two new words today, both medical (I'm not native)! :) At first I though that "phthisis" is a misspeled "phthitties".

Foothill

Be careful. Some enterprising young grad student might make this a programming language extension for JavaScript X|

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The pompey

It says forty two.

Marc Clifton

I think you just found the encryption algorithm that the guy later on was looking for. :laugh:

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