G.B.Shaw said you could spell fish like this ghoti, using the “gh” from cough, the “o” from “women”, and the “ti” from “nation”.
How would you pronounce these words, and what’s the** reasoning?[list=1][li]jast[/li][li]chauth[/li][li]cquold[/li][li]tiuph[/li][li]toccheomn[/li][li]whaiquthych[/li][li]wroeoeighkned[/li][/list=1]**(Please refrain from spilling the entire answer if you have the same word-game email I got, or an old game book. Just show off with one or two. Thanks.:))
If you can’t get them all, the answer to the pronunciations will be posted in by tomorrow morning, and the reasoning one day from now.
I would certainly like to know the answer, but as far as getting it myself, well…
Other than the fact that it’s late and I’m tired, there are just too many pronounciation exceptions, alternatives, and irregularities in the English language to run through every one. This is especially true when you don’t even know how the letters group together into sub-groups.
I disagree. The ‘cqu’ sound clearly includes the first vowel portion of the ui dipthong, so you either have to make a new dipthong with the o making it ‘quad’ or since you seem to be omitting the laws of what letters do when they are next to other letters, ‘quid’.
Since you are using a dipthong in rewind to make the W sound by doing o-eigh, I’d have to go with ‘quad’. But that’s just me.
A dipthong is pretty much the sound in between two vowels. Like the u and i in quiet. Say it out loud. There’s that slight “H” sound in the middle. That’s a dipthong.
Also between the i and e. There’s a “Y” there if you say it out loud.
Aggh. One more try to get it right-
How about this: cqold --> kid acquire, women, could
dipthong n. 1) A complex speech sound beginning with one vowel sound and moving to another vowel or semivowel position within the same syllable 2) The footware of the two-toed sloth.
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