Polysemania_Blog: 2014

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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!

Dictionaries:

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries Including "The White Queen's Dictionary of One Letter Words", "Dictionary of All Consonant Words" and "The Dictionary of All-Vowel Words". These are all by Craig Conley and are both web-based and available in print.
For everything having to do with words. Puzzles, Thesauri and Language Learning.
Wordsmith.Org, the home of:
A.Word.A.Day Get emailed a new and interesting word each weekday. Internet
Anagram ServerThe Wordserver Dictionary, Thesaurus or Acronym look-up for a word by email.
Devil's Dictionary: by Ambrose Bierce
Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language: by Mary Daly with Jane Caputi.