Re: Arabic -- qawsitaliyya?

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:39:28 GMT

Herb Martin wrote:

> English has the infamous fish=ghoti problem.
> (and: tough, through, though, thought, bough, cough, sough, etc)

It may be infamous, but it's not a problem. <gh> does not indicate [f]
syllable-initially, <ti> does not indicate [S] finally, and <o> does not
indicate [I] except in the word <women>. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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