If you have a Mac, try this:
1. Open any text editor.
2. Type ghoti.
3. Activate text-to-speech.
Alex, the built-in computer voice, pronounces "ghoti" as "fish"! Why?
This is a very old joke about the irregularities in English spelling:
"gh" is pronounced "f", like in "tough"
"o" is pronounced "i", like in "women"
"ti" is pronounced "sh" like in "rational"
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