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Brian Miller
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NIAMH (Neev)
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Wow. I would never have gotten that.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 June 2025 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | 2
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Names can be strange. My own last name has only five letters, yet one is silent and one is pronounced somewhat unconventionally. (“…sometimes Y” usually mimics an I or an E. But mine is a U.)Even the H in John is silent. My middle name, Lindley, arguably has a silent E.
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Paul Reis
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the current thread reminds me of a friend that tried to get a personalized lisence plate: GHOTI ... pronounced "fish"
his logic: "gh" as in enough = "f" "o" as in women = "i" "ti" as in action = "sh"
i forget the reason they gave him for NOT issuing the plate.
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Paul Reis
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| Posted: 06 June 2025 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | 4
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does anyone remember Unifon ? a few websites still exist.basically, Unifon was a system where each letter, or character, represented one distinct sound of the English language.
i thought it was a GREAT idea ... until it was pointed out to me that:
if JFK, with his Boston accent, sounded out, and wrote a note/letter in Unifon English to his VP, Johnson, with his Texas drawl, he would have read out the sounds and potentially have little to no understanding of what was written. as would the reply from him back to the president.
Edited by Paul Reis on 06 June 2025 at 9:48pm
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Bill Collins
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Leominster=Lemster.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 07 June 2025 at 8:07am | IP Logged | 6
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I once went to the Polish city of Wrawclaw for work. I spent two days in
meetings where people were talking about VROH-ts-wahf wondering where
this place was and how it related to where we were.
Felt really stupid in realising it was where we actually were
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 07 June 2025 at 11:49am | IP Logged | 7
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the current thread reminds me of a friend that tried to get a personalized lisence plate: GHOTI ... pronounced "fish"••• I think it was George Bernard Shaw who coined that. GBS spent much of his adult life vexed by the inconsistency of the English language/alphabet. Thinking about it myself the only partial “fix” I could come up with was addressing the letter C. C has no distinct sound of its own, usually presenting as S or K, and sometimes pairing with H to also make the K sound, as in SCHOOL, or the CHUH we see in CHURCH. MY “solution” was to use S and K where those sounds appeared—SKOOL, SIRKUS—and give the CH sound to C alone, so CHURCH would become CURC, CHERRY would be CERRY, and so on.
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John Byrne
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Speaking of C, came upon an online note that the letter has a different sound in each of its appearances in PACIFIC OCEAN.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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I grew up in a town with an extended family of folks with the surname “Pettit,” which did not sound in any way French when they spoke it.
My long-term website design guy is named Caomhin. You know, “Kevin.”
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James Woodcock
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My long-term website design guy is named Caomhin. You know,
“Kevin.”
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Recently learnt this one during a work meeting
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 June 2025 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | 11
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All together now:Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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Brian Floyd
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Is it contagious?
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