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stewie
16-10-07, 04:40 PM
Just an easy one for ya , Dr Johnson the famous man of letters, showed the absurdity of the English language with this word, but what is it ? in other words this is actually a very common word but spelt a different way, so what is it ? GHOIT
pencil shavings
16-10-07, 04:41 PM
2, to, two, too? :smt103
Welsh_Wizard
16-10-07, 04:42 PM
there, their ?
stewie
16-10-07, 04:43 PM
Nope :D
pencil shavings
16-10-07, 04:48 PM
this is really annoying me because ive actually read (red lol) what the word is :smt013
kwak zzr
16-10-07, 04:48 PM
Fish.
stewie
16-10-07, 04:50 PM
Fish.
:winner:
kwak zzr
16-10-07, 04:50 PM
Use the 'gh' sound from enough for the 'f' sound and the 't' sound from nation for the 'sh' sound.
Brian
16-10-07, 04:55 PM
GHOIT

Is that an anagram of the word or an abbrieviation?.. If it's an abbrieviation, then what does it mean? lol

If not, my word is.... Ummmm...... Oh I dunno.... :(
pencil shavings
16-10-07, 04:57 PM
Use the 'gh' sound from enough for the 'f' sound and the 't' sound from nation for the 'sh' sound.
love it!
Kinvig
16-10-07, 06:11 PM
bear/bear/bare?
Brian
16-10-07, 06:29 PM
I still don't know what GHOIT means!!!!!!
Jester666
16-10-07, 06:30 PM
GHOTI not GHOIT

See here >> http://www.eduqna.com/Words-Wordplay/962-Words-Wordplay-6.html
hovis
16-10-07, 06:32 PM
eh?
stewie
16-10-07, 06:37 PM
I still don't know what GHOIT means!!!!!!


Ok what he meant was that in the english language words can have various spellings so gh can be f as in 'she,s a bit rou'gh', O can mean the I in women as in 'why, I find myself quite attracted to all these women' and ti or it or iti can sound like shhh as In' has smudge just ti it or iti himself ' :D
stewie
16-10-07, 06:41 PM
GHOTI not GHOIT

See here >> http://www.eduqna.com/Words-Wordplay/962-Words-Wordplay-6.html


He,s got it spot on btw, sorry for confusion ;)
Brian
16-10-07, 07:11 PM
He,s got it spot on btw, sorry for confusion ;)
Heheh... :smt064

Ah, now I see what it means, thought it was an abbrieviation for somthin like Lmao etc...
Kinvig
16-10-07, 07:15 PM
ahhhhh. *smacks self on head*
Bluepete
16-10-07, 08:09 PM
Mrs BP here again...

What was it I was saying on Ed's post about learning how to use sounds to spell words? ;) :D

Mrs BP
Jackhammer
16-10-07, 08:33 PM
the "o" in Ghoit is meant to be pronounced like the "o" in Women (as in wimen - phonetically) :-)
stewie
16-10-07, 09:23 PM
yup