Ooooh, shiney

[PacificDogwood]

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

Pacific! Want to start a North America v. England / Brit thread?

[MardyBra]

complex Ah, I've just realised that you are the OP of the other thread. (Great thread btw). Maybe that encouraged MNHQ to get their finger out .

[PacificDogwood]

Hearts, one could, one could . It may have been done before though...

Shadow, I know ghoti for fish like so:
f from enough
i from wo men
sh from stati on

[PacificDogwood]

FFS

[BaronessBomburst]

Van domeinen ex

[BaronessBomburst]

Sorry, my autocorrect was in the wrong language and I accidentally posted whilst trying to change it!

I was trying to say: can somebody please explain this ghoti fish business as I don't quite get it.

Thank you!

[ShadowOfTheDay]

ghoti -

gh as said in "enough" so fff
o as said in "women" so a soft i
ti as said in "nation" so sh...

hence ghoti is pronounced fish

[ShadowOfTheDay]

Also ghoti pronounced silently

gh as said in "though" so
o as said in "people" so
t as said in "ballet" so
i as said in "business" so

a word with no sound....

[bottersnike]

Hurray, a languages section for me to lurk in (and occasionally post, woo!) in between translation projects.

[ExitPursuedTheRoyalPrude]

You are all far too clever for me.

[duchesse]

Well, this is all new!

[BaronessBomburst]

Thank you shadow!

Bottersnike when I say your name out loud you sound Afrikaans.

[AnnaBegins]

Yay! [curls up amongst the dusty tomes] I was just back in my uni town this weekend being jealous of friends who are still linguistic-ing.

[ShadowOfTheDay]

How about a baked ghoughpteighbteau for lunch..... to go with the ghoti fingers ... or would that just be silly... (damn .... I know there is one for silly too, somewhere, but I forgot it.......)

[ZeroSomeGameThingy]

Van domeinen ex...

I looked at this and made no sense of it in any language I've come across.

"Wow" I said to myself "a whole new area of learning is about to unfold before me. How clever my fellow Mnetters must be."

[BaronessBomburst]

Potato? Although I'm not totally sure how.

Baked and teigh and eau were the biggest clues!

[BaronessBomburst]

Latin? Although sounds more like a post for the Relationships topic.

[ShadowOfTheDay]

Baroness... yep potato - a bit more contrived.. but

gh as said in "hiccough" so p
ough as said in "though" so o
pt as said in "pterodactyl" so t
eigh as said in "neighbour" so a
bt as said in "debt" so t
eau as said in "bureau" so o

[MomeRath]

Can I creep in? Have many dusty old tomes but not clever enough to contribute...

[ExitPursuedTheRoyalPrude]

We've been here aaaaages.