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by vram22 2810 days ago
>To make English spelling more "logical" (so people need to remember less useless information!), we should again look to Mark Twain:

>> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm)

And we should also look to George Bernard Shaw. He proved that, in English, "fish" can be spelled "ghoti":

gh (= f) as in "laugh"

o (= i) as in "women"

ti (= sh) as in "nation"

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https://www.zompist.com/spell.html

"Whenever the subject comes up, someone is sure to bring up […] Shaw's ghoti-- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance. English spelling may be a nightmare, but it does have rules, and by those rules, ghoti can only be pronounced like goatee."