dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough,
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough,
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis,
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbor,
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette,
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau,

The right way to spell POTATO should be:

GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU

ecsd,
@ecsd@commons.whatiwanttoknow.org avatar

@dgar

George Bernard Shaw beat you to it, explaining how "fish" would be spelled "ghoti".

Ah well, an attribution, apparently faulty (o what we learn when we fact check ourselves.)

==

So, Twain again.

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inaforest,

@dgar nobody spells hiccup ending gh

bastardsheep,
@bastardsheep@aus.social avatar

@inaforest @dgar Hi, I’m nobody. Apparently.

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar
Virginicus,

@inaforest @dgar If you think Francis Bacon is “nobody”, then we must fight.

inaforest,

@Virginicus @dgar aw, bless ya, really. Language is so messed up

villavelius,
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TheBreadmonkey,
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar
Serenity,

@anapoda C'est un petit peu long pour ce soir j'ai regardé que les premières minutes et je me le bookmarque, et pour te remercier je te quote un toot rigolo ci-dessus dans la même veine (j'ai remonté 2 jours pour le retrouver avant de me rappeler qu'on peut pas citer ici alors j'ai bidouillé une réponse au message original.)

Buddyz_FJ,
@Buddyz_FJ@sfba.social avatar

@dgar 😳🤭

joat,
@joat@mastodon.scot avatar

@dgar sounds a bit ghoti to me

sellout,
@sellout@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar Is this a lemma along the way to proving the correct pronunciation of GIF?

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

@sellout
The G in GIF is pronounced exactly the same way as the G in “garage”.

techaddressed,
@techaddressed@fosstodon.org avatar

@dgar ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

lolonurse,
@lolonurse@ohai.social avatar

@dgar
Sorta looks like Welsh!!

LittleTownJane,
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@dgar English takes in orphans and strays, whenever they walk by, consequently, it is an unholy mess.

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

@LittleTownJane
*Borg voice “Your linguistic distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your words will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”

housepanther, (edited )

@dgar @LittleTownJane The GOP wants us to think resistance to is futile. Can you imagine a christian evangelist AI? That would be horrific.

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

@LittleTownJane @housepanther
Imagine it? I’m expecting it!

staringatclouds,
@staringatclouds@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar @LittleTownJane @housepanther My money says they already have one, but it keeps saying things like "Love they neighbour", "Turn the other cheek" & "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" so they daren't let it out in public

VampiresAndRobots,
@VampiresAndRobots@writing.exchange avatar

@dgar TIL hiccough is not, in fact, 'hick-coff,' which I assumed was a regional variety of the hiccup.

dbattistella,
@dbattistella@mstdn.ca avatar

@dgar Excellent! 👏 👏 👏

kAlvaro,
@kAlvaro@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar Por favor, que alguien invente los ya calamares sintéticos. 😰

darren,
@darren@c.im avatar

@dgar you just invented Welsh.

Healthcarer,

@dgar PHTH does not, sadly, stand for t. However pronounced it is not "tithsis".

KekunPlazas,
@KekunPlazas@mamot.fr avatar

@dgar Ghoughphtheightteeau and gothi.

Purple_Sky,
@Purple_Sky@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar

That's why I'm still not sure I speak one.

jaycee,
@jaycee@toot.community avatar

@dgar it is in Gaelic!

jaycee,
@jaycee@toot.community avatar

@dgar 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏

Er_mecanico,
@Er_mecanico@mastodon.social avatar
wytchgsd,

@dgar that’s a well mashed potato!👏

sll,
@sll@pouet.chapril.org avatar

@dgar ghoti!

RodneyPetersonTalent,
@RodneyPetersonTalent@mastodon.social avatar

@dgar

WHOA!!! Does this mean perhaps Dan Quayle wasn’t a total moron???

Footnote - Clearly he wasn’t. “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away.” (Referring to what that asshole Trump wanted him to do in reference to the electoral vote count.)

"You don't know the position I'm in” "I do know the position you're in," Quayle responded. "I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That's all you do. You have no power."

ZoraSaidSo,

@dgar
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