🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <810563601snz@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>, walter briscoe <walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I emailed halasz with the same point but have yet to get a response. I
> gave a partial joke to lighten the point. I now have the full version
> which I heard attributed to George Bernard Shaw - the noted author in
> English and an Irishman!
> 
> How should you pronounce "ghoti"?
> "fish"! "gh" as in "enough"; "o" as in "women"; "ti" as in "sanction".
> 
> I had forgotten the "o" example.

Faults with Shaw s example:
    Such use of "gh" is found onlie after "u", as in "enough" or "laughter",
formerlie also after "r", as in "dwargh" and "bargh" (hill).
    The word "woman"/"women" is anomalous, even in speech.
    Such use of "ti" is alwais followd by a vouel, oftenest "o", but there
is also "militia".

If he had reallie studied the matter, he would hav found that
the biggest troublemaker is "s",
	mouse/mice, rinse, cleanse, house (n), house (v), lesser, possess;
and after that "u"/"v":
	glove, drove, tome, some, drive, give, live (v), alive.
This has nothing whatsoevver to doo with language-change,
but with Norman spelling rules.