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Re: International questions
Postitatud: 22.03.2010, 19:20
Postitas tanel
The word in question is actually very common. However "ghoti" is a constructed word to display pronunciation irregularities is english language. Thus it sounds nothing like it would in estonian.
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 28.03.2010, 16:45
Postitas tanel
To explain the question - as we all know, pronunciation rules are rather complex and somewhat incoherent. Therefore different spellings can lead to similar pronunciation. For example, word "night" will sound the same as "nite", assuming the latter sounds similarly to words such as "kite". Word "ghoti" is extreme example of this, as all letters are replaced with "imports" from other words.
As the question has been active for a while and Google (or Wikipedia, which gives a rather good backstory) is a fair game now, I will give the words from which "ghoti" was made - "women", "tough" and "nation".
So, to which word is "ghoti" a spelling alternative?
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 28.03.2010, 16:50
Postitas arko
fish
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 28.03.2010, 16:52
Postitas tanel
arko kirjutas:fish
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 03.04.2010, 12:02
Postitas arko
Where was this colossal bronze statue opened today?
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 03.04.2010, 20:58
Postitas arko
To rephrase the question: which country celebrates it's 50th anniversary of independence this year?
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 04.04.2010, 16:25
Postitas holte
Indonesia?
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 04.04.2010, 16:31
Postitas arko
Indonesia in independent since 1949, not 1960.
It is the Monument of African Renaissance
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 05.04.2010, 21:29
Postitas arko
would this help?
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 05.04.2010, 23:24
Postitas cadman
Shalom to Jerusalem? Seems like that kind of taste.
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 06.04.2010, 09:48
Postitas arko
No-no. An African capital.
Another clue: the monument has been criticized as being too un-islamic
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 06.04.2010, 10:33
Postitas Henry IX
This monument should have been erected by North-Korean specialists
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 06.04.2010, 11:34
Postitas kalmer
Dakar.
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 06.04.2010, 11:36
Postitas arko
kalmer kirjutas:Dakar.
Re: International questions
Postitatud: 12.08.2010, 11:26
Postitas arko
Re-animating the category: Who holds the copyright for Hitler's "Mein Kampf"?