How do you like your ghoughpteighbteaus?

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Sliced and fried with butter and some Allium cepa! Add a little salt and wow.
 
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Rolled up like little gnocci, sprinkled with a cayenne pepper and cinnimon mix, then deep beer-batter fried to a pinkish color, then served on a bed of Basmati rice and corriander, served with a wedge of lemon, a raw white onion, pita bread, and a nice cold soda.
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English is the only language that I know that has spelling bees. English has extreme variability of pronunciation of groups of letters. "Ghoti" and "ghoughpteighbteau" are old mockeries of the quirkiness of English spelling.

From: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html[/b]

What is "ghoti"?
by Jim Scobbie

It's an alternative spelling of "chestnut". :) O.K., it's
"fish", re-spelled by a Victorian spelling-reform advocate to
demonstrate the inconsistency of English spelling: "gh" as in
"cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation".

"Ghoti" is popularly attributed to George Bernard Shaw. But
Michael Holroyd, in Bernard Shaw: Volume III: 1918-1950: The Lure
of Fantasy (Chatto & Windus, 1991), p. 501, writes that Shaw "knew
that people, 'being incorrigibly lazy, just laugh at spelling
reformers as silly cranks'. So he attempted to reverse this
prejudice and exhibit a phonetic alphabet as native good sense
[...]. But when an enthusiastic convert suggested that 'ghoti'
would be a reasonable way to spell 'fish' under the old system
[...], the subject seemed about to be engulfed in the ridicule from
which Shaw was determined to save it." We have not been able to
trace the name of the "enthusiastic convert". Bill Bedford
(billb@mousa.demon.co.uk) writes: "I seem to remember a film/TV
clip of Shaw himself referring to this - but don't ask for chapter
and verse."

It has also been suggested that "ghoti" could be a spelling
of "huge": "h" having its usual value, [h]; "g" making [j], the
sound of "y" in yes, after the *following* consonant as in
"lasagne"; "o" = *u* as in "move", "t" = [d] as in "Taoism", and
"i" = [Z] as in one pronunciation of "soldier".

In the same vein is "ghoughpteighbteau":

P hiccough
O though
T ptomaine
A neigh
T debt
O bureau

Supposedly, this is an example of how awful English spelling is,
and why it ought to be reformed. In fact, it argues that English
spelling is kind and considerate, and easy. Why? Because "potato"
*isn't* spelled "ghoughpteighbteau". It's spelled "potato"! O.K,
O.K., "neigh" isn't spelt "ne", and we can get into all the old
arguments, but these really fun examples overstate the case and
strike those of us opposed to spelling reform as self-defeating.

Also, Allium Cepa is the scientific name for onion. Allium Sativa is the name for garlic which is in the same genus.

Alexander
President
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Ok, this must be some type of secret society. I'll just mind my own business. :)
 
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I had a class on Shaw in college, he thought the English alphabet should be redone due to the complexity of spelling. Many of you may have heard of his play Pygmalion, later turned into the musical My Fair Lady.

Some info Shaw:

George Bernard Shaw, or Bernard Shaw, as he liked to be called since he did not like the name George, was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 26th, 1856. His family was of low middle-class, Scottish Protestant ancestry. He left for London in 1876 pursuing a career in journalism and writing. There he managed to establish himself as a leading music and theatre critic and also as a very well know public speaker. Later on he joined the Fabian Society in 1884 as one of its first members; the Society was a socialist political organization, dedicated to transforming Britain into a socialist state. Shaw wrote his first play in 1891, Widower's Houses, he used his plays as a means to communicate his sociopolitical views to try and bring about social reform.

Lot's of info on the web about him, including his new alphabet:

http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/shaw-pref.html
 
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Thanks for that info. It was interesting, but I still have no idea what ghoughpteighbteaus is supposed to say.
 
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