Can you do it?

ddraver
ddraver Posts: 26,661
edited January 2012 in The bottom bracket
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/eng ... unciation/

I will never comment on a non English speakers pronunciation again! :oops:
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    Nice find. Thank you.


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  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    ghoti is pronounced 'fish'

    gh sounds like F as in enough
    o sounds like I as in women
    ti sounds like SH as in petition
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I honestly don't see what's so difficult to pronounce, if English is one's Mother Tongue. For a foreigner learning, though, it must be a bloody nightmare.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    I think that's the point Benjamin...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    There was a small piece in the new scientist this week about the english language. Apparently the english language is easy to learn because it has so few rules - but paradoxically this makes it hard to teach as there are so few rules.

    Anyway, the sami people have over a hundred words for snow - go on twitter (140 wd limit) and ask them to describe wintry white stuff - it drives them apoplet, apoplep, mad.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    I think I've been nominated to give a demonstration tomorrow afternoon at work.....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver

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