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Message 17 of 61 (283489)
02-02-2006 5:06 PM

Reply to: Message 16 by Parasomnium
02-02-2006 4:51 PM

Re: Ghoti

I'm trying to remember who first use "ghoti". Perhaps it was G.B. Shaw.

You might appreciate this comment from a 2000 usenet post by linguist Jacques Guy:

The ultimate secret of language is this: language is absurd, illogical. If it were not, it would not work.

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Message 21 of 61 (283514)
02-02-2006 6:27 PM

Reply to: Message 20 by Coragyps
02-02-2006 6:00 PM

Re: Ghoti

That was Oliver Wendell Holmes, according to my father:

Here is one of the google references for ghoti.

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02-04-2006 8:39 PM

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