English Spelling
* Do you like to “ghoti”? George Bernard Shaw pointed out that with the Roman alphabet the word “fish” might be spelled ghoti; f as in rough, i as in women and sh as in nation. I do like to ghoti.
The fact that a single sound may be spelled in several different ways is the serious handicap of the Roman alphabet. I do not think it is just California students who have problems with spelling.
JAMES D. HARAN
Huntington Beach
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