Spell "coffee"

[fabzorba]

Donna Richoux's mini-FAQ on spelling reform
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/4055e42a06bd551c#
details the following:

It's an alternative spelling of "chestnut". :-) O.K., it's "fish",
re-spelled to demonstrate the inconsistency of English spelling:
"gh"
as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation".
This idea is used as a humorous educational tool to make us think
about
the irregularity of English spelling, which lacks perfect one-to-one
correspondence between sounds and symbols.
In fact, one can say that "ghoti" shows that English spelling is
kind,
considerate, and easy. Why? Because fish isn't really spelled
"ghoti"!
Made-up examples like this may be fun, but they overstate the case
for
spelling reform and strike some of us as self-defeating.

In my first week at Secondary School, my English teacher told me a
story which I have never forgotten.

A boy applies to get into a selective school but he has no academic
talent at all, quite the reverse. But he IS a superb athlete and would
put the school on top in football. So they give him a test which has
been specially modified to make it as easy as possible for him to
qualify for admission. It is a spelling test, and there is only ONE
word to spell, and moreover, he only has to get ONE letter (!) of that
word right.

So he sits down and they tell him the word. It is "coffee". He frowns,
and mumbles and thinks for a long time, and finally writes down
something. They take the paper off his desk and look at what he has
written:

K A U G H Y

myles [I'd like to see that on a mug...] paulsen

[R H Draney]

fabzorba filted:

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>
>Donna Richoux's mini-FAQ on spelling reform
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/4055e42a06bd551c#
>details the following:
>
>It's an alternative spelling of "chestnut". :-) O.K., it's "fish",
>re-spelled to demonstrate the inconsistency of English spelling:
>"gh"
>as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation".
>This idea is used as a humorous educational tool to make us think
>about
>the irregularity of English spelling, which lacks perfect one-to-one
>correspondence between sounds and symbols.
>In fact, one can say that "ghoti" shows that English spelling is
>kind,
>considerate, and easy. Why? Because fish isn't really spelled
>"ghoti"!

Besides, as any fule kno, "ghoti" is silent:

gh as in "though"
o as in "people"
t as in "ballet"
i as in "maize"

....r


--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.

[fabzorba]

On 4월27일, 오후5시57분, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> fabzorba filted:
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> >Donna Richoux's mini-FAQ on spelling reform

> >http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread...

> >details the following:
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> >It's an alternative spelling of "chestnut". :-) O.K., it's "fish",
> >re-spelled to demonstrate the inconsistency of English spelling:
> >"gh"
> >as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation".
> >This idea is used as a humorous educational tool to make us think
> >about
> >the irregularity of English spelling, which lacks perfect one-to-one
> >correspondence between sounds and symbols.
> >In fact, one can say that "ghoti" shows that English spelling is
> >kind,
> >considerate, and easy. Why? Because fish isn't really spelled
> >"ghoti"!
>
> Besides, as any fule kno, "ghoti" is silent:
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> gh as in "though"
> o as in "people"
> t as in "ballet"
> i as in "maize"
>
> ....r
>
> --

I prefer my kaughy for coffee over ghoti for fish, as the former is a
more plausible mistake.
Gh is not used for ph at the beginning of a word, and, similarly, the
other "mistakes" could not have been made.

Kaughy is a much cleaner, and therefore funnier howler. There is a
plausible absurdity in it, if that oxymoron passes.

myles [why, I wet my frilly whites when I first heard it, I did get so
ribbed by the other chums...] paulsen

[Robert Bannister]

On 28/04/12 3:47 PM, fabzorba wrote:

> Kaughy is a much cleaner, and therefore funnier howler. There is a
> plausible absurdity in it, if that oxymoron passes.

It looks like an Irish name to me and is, therefore by definition,
impossible to pronounce correctly.


--
Robert Bannister