Sandro Caruana (April 3) regaled us with the vagaries of pronunciation of English. What about this - the word `fish` might correctly be spelt ghoti for the following reasons:

GH to be pronounced "f" as in enouGH; O to be pronounced "I" as in wOmen; and TI to be pronounced "SH" as in dictaTIon.

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