Originally posted by Knight Square [b]a)The word GHOTI can also sound like,
OK, so Bernard Shaw pronounces it as FISH but his point was that English spelling is too ambiguous. Is your question then "how many ways can you pronounce ghoti or hen?"
Originally posted by ThudanBlunder How do you pronouce 'gnu'?
I say it has a hard 'g' but a friend claims it is silent and pronounced like 'new'.
I've always pronounced it with a hard g - like a 2 syllable word - but Chambers Dictionary agrees with your friend - the g is silent. If enough of us pronounce it our way for long enough, the dictionary will change accordingly.
Originally posted by Mixo I've always pronounced it with a hard g - like a 2 syllable word - but Chambers Dictionary agrees with your friend - the g is silent.
Originally posted by Mixo I've always pronounced it with a hard g - like a 2 syllable word - but Chambers Dictionary agrees with your friend - the g is silent. If enough of us pronounce it our way for long enough, the dictionary will change accordingly.
its true that how people often use the word lets us know how it will be pronounced down the road(future) the word Knight is a good example. In Anglo-saxon times the word was pronounced with its K not being silent. ka-Night ... somewhere in the mix the K became silent... I cant remember where I heard this.- most likely in my English Lit. class.
30 Jul '06 12:57
Ghoti, Hen
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