From: utzoo!watmath!jcwinterton Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: ghoti Article-I.D.: watmath.2997 Posted: Mon Jul 12 19:15:28 1982 Received: Mon Jul 12 23:23:53 1982 Derived by George Bernard Shaw using GH as in couGH, O as in wOmen, TI as in attenTIon. The word, is, of course, FISH. Thanks for all the mail from those who participated, which included the information that the Spanish, Russians, Germans and just about everybody has tried to do something about their orthography except les Francaises and the English. John Winterton.