Michael N. Marcus discusses writing, editing, design, publishing, language, culture, politics, food and other things. This blog started in 2008, was on hiatus for the summer and fall of 2017, and restarted in December.
We publish on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday in most weeks.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
English is a very confusing language
Consider the letter sequence GHOTI.
Pronounce the "gh" as in "rough."
Pronounce the "o" as in "women."
Pronounce the "ti" as in "nation."
Brad Bitt pic from mirror.co.uk. Fish pic from Coloradofisherman.com
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