Marv that bit
Phonetic spelling doesn't work very well in a language where a word like 'fish' can be spelled 'ghoti'.
'gh' from 'enough'
'o' from 'women'
'ti' from 'nation'
Takes me back about 50 some years to the older engineer in our office. He told me that one.
...lew... I've even used it a few times
The 'ghoti' spelling is almost universally attributed to George Bernhard Shaw. However, recent research has found it in articles published before Shaw was born. Regardless, it's still a wonderful encapsulation of the difficulties of English orthography.
Shaw still remains one of my favorite masters of the pithy (and often barbed) quote...
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Fashion: Nothing but an induced epidemic.
NEWSPAPERS: (A device) unable... to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Democracy substitutes selection by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
