Ooooh, shiney

[PacificDogwood]

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

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 .

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

FFS

Van domeinen ex

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!

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

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....

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

You are all far too clever for me.

Well, this is all new!

Thank you shadow!

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

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.

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.......)

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."

Potato? Although I'm not totally sure how.

Baked and teigh and eau were the biggest clues!

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

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

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

We've been here aaaaages.