From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!jqw
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: words
Article-I.D.: unc.3667
Posted: Fri Jul  9 01:05:37 1982
Received: Fri Jul  9 04:21:21 1982


	While not quite "modern," some of the American spelling of words like
"colour" come from Noah Webster's idea to simplify spelling. Most of his
reforms failed, however.
	"ghoti" is, of course, pronounced the same as (**SPOILER WARNING**)
"fish." "gh" as in "enough", "o" as in "women," "ti" as in "nation."
Spanish is very much (not quite totally) a phonetically spelled language, too.