• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    “Apparently, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was fond of pointing out the absurdities of English spelling by proving that “fish” could be spelled “ghoti”, That is, gh as in rough, o as in women and ti as in palatial”

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    2 months ago

    So many of those are not even English words lol

    Yeah of course people are gonna mispronounce surprise French and ancient Greek words

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      2 months ago

      No no I’m pronouncing the french words correctly, it’s the Brits who are wrong