• Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I still think about how my Cuban former coworker pronounced Popeye the Sailor as poh-pee-yay

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    5 months ago

    “Apparently, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was fond of pointing out the absurdities of English spelling by proving that “fish” could be spelled “ghoti”, That is, gh as in rough, o as in women and ti as in palatial”