Reblog directo do Greg Ross

"Charles Ollier observed that GHOTI can be pronounced “fish”:

GH as in laugh
O as in women
TI as in nation

Melville Dewey, who devised the Dewey Decimal System, suggested that GHEAUGHTEIGHPTOUGH spells “potato”:

GH as in hiccough
EAU as in beau
GHT as in naught
EIGH as in neigh
PT as in pterodactyl
OUGH as in though

This sort of thing can get out of hand quickly. In his 1845 Plea for Phonotypy and Phonography, Alexander John Ellis offered SCHIESOURRHCE for “scissors,” PHAIGHPHEAWRAIBT for “neither,” PHAIGHPHEAWRAIBT for “favorite,” PSOURRPHUAKNTW for “servant,” and (fittingly) EOLOTTHOWGHRHOIGHUAY for “orthography.”

GHOTI might even be silent:

GH as in though
O as in people
T as in ballet
I as in business
Other languages, it seems, have simply surrendered — the Klingon word for fish is ghotI."

Mais aqui, e sempre tão bom.

Greg, casava-me contigo, se me quisesses.