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oooh, that's good, eta.
Reminds me of ghoti
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I've always sorta said it /də'gɑjɣ/ in me noggin.
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ghoti
I've always pronounced this as shavian. But, in fact, it's the third person singular present indicative of the Sanskrit verb √ghu 'to skeedaddle'.
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now, don't go piscine somebody off...
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piscine
One man's mead is another one's poisson. Sorry, my intention was not to anger anybody ...
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 poissonclever angle...
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AnnaStrophic,
Faldage is right: "J.", based on Shaw's ghoti idea. Dge from "edge" and -eigh from "sleigh". I forget the linguistic term for it, but instead of spelling it Dgeeigh, I dropped one of the Es and shortened it to Dgeigh.
It has been bothering me though. What is the linguistic term for dropping a duplicated letter in such a context?
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It has been bothering me though. As well it should--have you no conscience, man?  I've known the pronunciation for a while now: I had inside info.
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I looked up apocope on the web and found that it is the omission of a letter or syllable at the end of a word. So apocope wouldn’t be quite right. Syncope, which is the omission of letters or syllables from the middle of a word, would be technically correct, but I was thinking about a term that dealt more with vowels and how some vowels were dropped from some words in their journeys from Old English to Middle English and Middle English to Modern English. Unfortunately, I think the term I’m looking for is in the one book I sold back to the book store in college
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