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Re: Phonics

Thanks, Joan!  This is excellent timing.  I'm having my "Intro. to
Language" students begin the section of phonology and phonetics next week.

  --Bobbie

On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Joan I Hawthorne wrote:

> Bobby -  I can't answer the important part of your question, but the
> "fish" example will live in my mind forever.  Fish = ghoti.  The gh is
> pronounced as in "graph," the "o" as in "women," and the "ti" as in
> "motion."  
> 
> Normally I have a terrible recollection of trivia, and I hesitate to
> think what this one firmly ensconced memory says about me.
> 
> 
> Joan Hawthorne
> Univ. of North Dakota
> 
>