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Re: spelling- just do it!

Subject: Re: spelling- just do it!
From: "Robert E. Allen" <re_allen -at- PNL -dot- GOV>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 14:34:45 GMT

In article <199408171255 -dot- IAA00767 -at- mcom02 -dot- cle -dot- ab -dot- com>,
"Lori A. Moreland" <lamorela -at- cle -dot- ab -dot- com> says:

>George Bernard Shaw was big on this. One example that I recall is spelling
> "fish" as "ghoti" or something like that. Anyway, my $0.02:

It isn't spelling, it's pronounciation:

GH as in cough

O as in women

TI as in nation

"FISH," makes sense to me.

Bob

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