Ghoti
Ghoti is a fictional word in the English language. The invention is the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw attributed. The word is the lack of logic of the English written language, or their mutilated phoneme - grapheme correspondence satirize, because it is logically justified, " Ghoti " like the English word " fish" [ fɪʃ ]: pronounce (Eng. "fish").
Composition
- The
to as "rough ", " laugh" or " cough" are pronounced as [ f], - The
as in " women" ( plural) would correspond to [ ɪ ] - And that would
pronounced as [ ʃ ] as in the words " nation" or " martial"
Newer reading
Another reading, which has become known, is made up as follows:
- The
here is pronounced as in "night" or "fight " - The
as in "people", - The
as in "ballet " or "gourmet " - finally, as in "business".
Thus, so should the word " Ghoti " not at issue, since none of these graphemes in each word represents an actual sound, they are silent.
More parodies
In addition to " Ghoti " there are other parodies, whose origin is unknown:
If
as [ p] in " hiccough " as [ əʊ ] in " dough " as [t] in " phthisis " as [ eɪ ] in " neighbor", as [t] in "gazette " - And
as [ əʊ ] in "plateau " is pronounced,
Then it should be possible, the English word "potato " (engl.: " potato " ) to write ghoughphtheightteeau.
If
as [ ʃ ] in " nation", as [ ɪ ] in " women", - And
as [ p] in " hiccough " is pronounced,
Then it should be possible to use the word "ship " (engl.: "ship" ) to write tiogh.
Trivia
The developer of the Star Trek language " Klingon ", Marc Okrand has deliberately chosen for " fish " the word ghoti ' [ ɣotɪʔ ].