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mx-femme:

hhhanner:

okay let’s talk about english for a second

in linguistics we learned about how with english pronunciation rules

technically

fish can be spelled ‘ghoti’ and still be pronounced the same way

in the word ‘enough’ the gh makes an F sound

in women, the o makes an ‘ih’ sound

and in words like solution or tution, the ti makes a ‘sh’ sound

so

ghoti can be pronounced ‘fish’.

the end.

But isn’t the reason we say those letters in those words that way because of the total formation of the word.  Like, gh makes an F sound because it’s at the end of the word.  But when gh comes at the beginning of a word, like ghost, it makes a hard-g sound.

And the reason why ti makes a shh sound is because of the total sound of “tion” as “shun”.

So no, ghoti cannot be pronounced fish.

  • Track Name

    A la Volonté Du Peuple

  • Album

    Les Miserables: French Concept Album

  • Artist

    Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil.

fabuloustyrell:

A la volonté du peuple
Et à la santé du progrès,
Remplis ton cœur d’un vin rebelle
Et à demain, ami fidèle.
Nous voulons faire la lumière
Malgré le masque de la nuit
Pour illuminer notre terre
Et changer la vie.

A la Volonté Du peuple (do you hear the people sing)

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