On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:07 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> My copy of this is back in the mid-90s:
> 
>                             Vy  Knot?

George Bernard Shaw left money in his will to promote the
rationalization of English spelling, but to no avail. One of his
well-known examples was the word ghoti:

gh as in enough
o as in women
ti as in station

giving us the pronunciation "fish".

Rules of grammar and spelling are about convention, not logic. Breaking
the convention makes things harder to understand. That's really my only
point.

poc

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