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Congratulations to all you TechNetters who've learned English. (I think George Bernard Shaw recognized the possible existence of ghoti that Inge showed us.)

Having studied variously German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, when I got to Russian and found that the same sound could be represented by é, ê, or éê, and that ç, in a few pronouns, was pronounced as ÷, I noticed myself getting rather irritated. After a little while, however, the thought occurred to me - what must learners of English have to deal with?

Louis Hart

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hernefjord Ingemar
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] English

yeah...agree...not easy to pronounce english  words..
no wonder some people don't understand a ounce

e.g   'ghoti'

anyone who can read what it is?

It's 'fish'

f as in laugh
i as in women
sh as in station

Inge

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