I saw the word facetious in a recent topic and immediately thought abstemious and unnoticeably.
I've been talking with lots of backpackers recently and love how rich the English language is. Tough, though, through, thorough, cough, bough. trough must really be hard for them.
GHOTI = Fish: Rough, GH = F; Women, O = I; Station, TI = SH.
Great language, eh? Anyone got any more quirks?
Sheba said
03:56 PM Jul 12, 2012
Plodnalong wrote:
GHOTI = Fish: Rough, GH = F; Women, O = I; Station, TI = SH.
That's double Dutch to me Plodalong.
Cheers,
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Thursday 12th of July 2012 03:56:29 PM
Plodnalong said
01:30 AM Jul 13, 2012
The gh in rough sounds like an f, the o in women is pronounced as an i (wimmen) and the ti in station is pronounced as sh. Put the sounds together and you get f i sh. Rough could have been spelt ruff women could have been spelt wimmin and station could have been spelt stashon. But the English language is so quirky that you could argue that ghoti spells fish!
Sometimes my thoughts take an odd path, eh?
Plodnalong said
01:32 AM Jul 13, 2012
By the way, facetious and abstemious have all 5 vowels in the right order and unnoticeably has them in reverse order.
Beth54 said
07:21 PM Jul 13, 2012
I suspect that was me, Plodnalong. Interesting subject.
Imagine how difficult it is for non-English speaking people to get their heads, and tongues, around our quirky language.
I have a Japanese sister-in-law who my brother brought to Australia 7 years ago. What an effort she has put in! She though she could 'speak English' because they learn it in school in Japan. Poor little thing struggled so much in those first few years.
Now she works in our Education system, would you believe! She teaches Japanese in middle school, but she's often thrown in to take over other classes at times. She's quite laid back about it all now.
I was watching her at a family function the other day, and she was happily chatting away with my sisters friend.
I'm truly proud of her and her fortitude. I like that word too! Fortitude!
Cruising Granny said
06:34 AM Jul 14, 2012
For all it's quirks the English language can be a lot of phun (fun) or ghun. Just one humble comma can change the whole, or entire context of a statement or sentence, but you won't have to go to (too, two) gaol (jail) if you transgress or offend. I have a lot of fun with it as my mind goes into over-drive. Politicians make the best fox-farts, or faux-pas, blunders and ambiguous errors when it comes to double meanings. I don't think I was facetious or faecious once, but I could be wrong.
Beth54 said
04:15 PM Jul 14, 2012
Cruising Granny wrote:
For all it's quirks the English language can be a lot of phun (fun) or ghun. Just one humble comma can change the whole, or entire context of a statement or sentence, but you won't have to go to (too, two) gaol (jail) if you transgress or offend. I have a lot of fun with it as my mind goes into over-drive. Politicians make the best fox-farts, or faux-pas, blunders and ambiguous errors when it comes to double meanings. I don't think I was facetious or faecious once, but I could be wrong.
And sometimes a picture tells a thousand words.
Editing because that doesn't look right...Chris?!
-- Edited by Beth54 on Saturday 14th of July 2012 04:16:31 PM
jules47 said
04:41 PM Jul 14, 2012
Oh, Granny, sure hope you weren't "faecious"!
Happywanderer said
05:10 PM Jul 14, 2012
Love it CG. I love words too, so get it completely. Find it all very intriguing!
Jack Mac said
12:47 AM Jul 15, 2012
Plodnalong wrote:
The gh in rough sounds like an f, the o in women is pronounced as an i (wimmen) and the ti in station is pronounced as sh. Put the sounds together and you get f i sh. Rough could have been spelt ruff women could have been spelt wimmin and station could have been spelt stashon. But the English language is so quirky that you could argue that ghoti spells fish!
Sometimes my thoughts take an odd path, eh?
There actually is a word spelled "ruff"
Cruising Granny said
03:42 AM Jul 16, 2012
Yeah, I know "ruff" is fluent dog for bark. Work that one out.
Jack Mac said
01:13 AM Jul 21, 2012
Cruising Granny wrote:
Yeah, I know "ruff" is fluent dog for bark. Work that one out.
I saw the word facetious in a recent topic and immediately thought abstemious and unnoticeably.
I've been talking with lots of backpackers recently and love how rich the English language is. Tough, though, through, thorough, cough, bough. trough must really be hard for them.
GHOTI = Fish: Rough, GH = F; Women, O = I; Station, TI = SH.
Great language, eh? Anyone got any more quirks?
-- Edited by Sheba on Thursday 12th of July 2012 03:56:29 PM
Rough could have been spelt ruff
women could have been spelt wimmin
and station could have been spelt stashon.
But the English language is so quirky that you could argue that ghoti spells fish!
Sometimes my thoughts take an odd path, eh?
I suspect that was me, Plodnalong.
Interesting subject.
Imagine how difficult it is for non-English speaking people to get their heads, and tongues, around our quirky language.
I have a Japanese sister-in-law who my brother brought to Australia 7 years ago. What an effort she has put in! She though she could 'speak English' because they learn it in school in Japan. Poor little thing struggled so much in those first few years.
Now she works in our Education system, would you believe! She teaches Japanese in middle school, but she's often thrown in to take over other classes at times. She's quite laid back about it all now.
I was watching her at a family function the other day, and she was happily chatting away with my sisters friend.
I'm truly proud of her and her fortitude. I like that word too! Fortitude!
Just one humble comma can change the whole, or entire context of a statement or sentence, but you won't have to go to (too, two) gaol (jail) if you transgress or offend.
I have a lot of fun with it as my mind goes into over-drive.
Politicians make the best fox-farts, or faux-pas, blunders and ambiguous errors when it comes to double meanings.
I don't think I was facetious or faecious once, but I could be wrong.
Editing because that doesn't look right...Chris?!
-- Edited by Beth54 on Saturday 14th of July 2012 04:16:31 PM
Oh, Granny, sure hope you weren't "faecious"!
There actually is a word spelled "ruff"
Also a ruffled collar. Think Elizabethan times.