#ghoti — Public Fediverse posts

I was looking for something entirely different, but the internet figured I needed to see this.

‘It’s tinned fish time!’ 🐟

Four words I never expected to see in that order.
#ghoti

Is it just me and my neurodiverse brain, or does everyone notice minutiae like this – and then feel compelled to blog about it?
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/26/enough-anough-and-the-archaeology-of-small-mistakes/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
What sorcery is this? 🪄 I often catch myself typing 'anough' for 'enough'. It's also closer to how I pronounce it. I may adopt this spelling out of spite. Does this happen in other languages?
#language #forensics #linquistics #phonetics #archaeology #cognition #signals #writing #prescription #english #ghoti #spelling #orthography #typos #enough

Of course, everyone knows that the word "Ghoti" is actually pronounced /fɪʃ/ just like "Fish"...
You don't? Please have a look at its dedicated Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

#ghoti #pronounciation #fish #wikipedia #english

Fishermen in the North Sea of the 1830s could catch one ton of halibut a day, which is why now nobody knows what a halibut looks like.

#fishing #fishermen #fish #ghoti #halibut

@ShadowJonathan Yeah, I am curious how this applies to Korean, which is space-separated but has no uppercase letters.

Perhaps it is the case that, while they are nonsense when displayed, it is good enough when spoken. I believe each Korean letters are independently pronounceable (unlike English #ghoti) - I wonder if there are languages that aren't, and don't have capital letters?

#ghoti