Re: The phonetic alphabet and the modern world.
A bit of trivea, the origin of ghoti/fish goes back earlier to a distant relative of mine, William Ollier, he was a journalist and was the son of Charles Ollier, Charles Ollier was Percy Shelley's publisher (amongst others) He turned down the offer to publish Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
The ghoti/fish thing was mentioned in a letter written by Charles Ollier to his life long friend Leigh Hunt.
Lawrence.
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