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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)
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English Spelling? Does English really work this way?
* Pronounce "ghoti".
* Pronounce "Phtholognyrrh".
* Spell "coffee" completely wrong.
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Sounds like my kind of place. Maybe I'll 'see' you there!
Don
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!
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