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quod·li·bet \Quod"li*bet\ (kw[o^]d"l[i^]*b[e^]t), n. [L., what you please.] 1. A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Also quodlibertarian and quodlibetic - purely academic!

English Spelling? Does English really work this way?

* Pronounce "ghoti".
* Pronounce "Phtholognyrrh".
* Spell "coffee" completely wrong.
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Monday, April 14, 2008

How come a Slug can't Slug?








From One Big Happy by Rick Detorie. And I think Ruthie has a point! A Bear can bear anything, but staying up all Winter. What other Animals and what they can and can't do might we come up with?

This language is messed up. But that is why I have this Blog!

Don
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

penguins can porpoise but porpoises cannot penguin

April 15, 2008 at 5:45 AM
Don Ricklin said...

Thanks Dad! I figured you would have at least one!

Don

April 15, 2008 at 6:25 AM

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Answers:
  • ghoti is pronounced: fish, 'gh' as in tough, 'o' as in women and 'ti' as in motion! Attributed to George Bernard Shaw by some. Visit GHOTI for a rant against this "joke" about english pronuciation.
  • Phtholognyrrh pronounced: Turner, According to a Mr. Turner who insisted on signing his name that way according to Robert M. Rennick in I Didn't Catch Your Name, Verbatim® Vol. XXix, No2. Mr Turner explains: " Look, the phth is like phthisic, which is pronounced t; olo is like colonel, which is pronounced ur; gn as in gnat is pronounced n; and yrrh as in myrrh, is pronounced er. So you have Turner. Nothing could be simpler." Reader's Digest, Jan . 1941, p. 42
  • coffee spelled completely incorrectly is kauphy! or kaughy!