Talk:Voiceless postalveolar fricative: Difference between revisions
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:It's ''ghoti'' and the ''ti'' comes from the ''-tion'' ending as in ''destination'', ''nation'', ''documentation'', etc. [http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html]. No apparent relationship to Inspector Ghote. [[User:Nohat|Nohat]] 17:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC) |
:It's ''ghoti'' and the ''ti'' comes from the ''-tion'' ending as in ''destination'', ''nation'', ''documentation'', etc. [http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhat04.html]. No apparent relationship to Inspector Ghote. [[User:Nohat|Nohat]] 17:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC) |
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I am far from being a phonetician, so I don't feel comfortable editing this article, but I feel like in the examples section (''shoe'', ''passion'', and ''caution''), the phoneme in ''passion'' is indicated by the letters ''ssi'', as opposed to just the letters ''ss''. ''Passon'' would not be pronounced with the voiceless postalveolar fricative; ''pasion'' would almost certainly be pronounced with the voiced postalveolar fricative; the word passion seems to combine the ss digraph that softens the vowel (and removes the voice from the resulting sound) with the [consonant]+i digraph that appears in ''caution''. Am I totally off base here? |
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I have heard somewhere that there is a wordplay with spelling the word "Fish" as "Ghote" (hence Inspector Ghote). I can easily remember the first two sounds: "Gh" sounds as "F" in "laugh", and "o" sounds as "i" in "women", but I cannot for my life remember what constitutes the spelling of "te" as sounding as "sh". Can somebody help me? --83.248.174.108 09:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC) (User Hannibal from Swedish Wikipedia)
- It's ghoti and the ti comes from the -tion ending as in destination, nation, documentation, etc. [1]. No apparent relationship to Inspector Ghote. Nohat 17:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I am far from being a phonetician, so I don't feel comfortable editing this article, but I feel like in the examples section (shoe, passion, and caution), the phoneme in passion is indicated by the letters ssi, as opposed to just the letters ss. Passon would not be pronounced with the voiceless postalveolar fricative; pasion would almost certainly be pronounced with the voiced postalveolar fricative; the word passion seems to combine the ss digraph that softens the vowel (and removes the voice from the resulting sound) with the [consonant]+i digraph that appears in caution. Am I totally off base here?