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09/16/2002 Entry: "consciousness. fish."

Do you ever hear people talking about the "subconscious" mind? Not to sound like a jerk, but the term doesn't exist. Not in psychology, at least. There are three levels of the conscious mind: Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.

I learn something new everyday. Here's something else that I learned that might be interesting.

How do you pronounce this word: GHOTI

Are you talking about the convicted and recently deceased mob boss John Gotti? Or the type of mustache that guys wear on their chin? For those who don't speak english, they'll most likely say the word is FISH.

How so? Well, in english when we pronounce the words "enough," "tough," and "rough" we make the "f" sound in place of "gh." They get mixed up when they're wrong pronouncing "through" as "throof." When we pronounce the word "women" we make the "o" sound as "i" and that also confuses them when "woman" doesn't use the "i" sound. Finally, words like "attention" and "action" use the "sh" sound in place of "ti." So they put it all together coming up with the word "fish."

Replies: 6 comments

oh neat! i wonder if many people who aren't familiar with the band often mispronounce their name.

Posted by Erma @ 09/20/2002 11:05 AM EST

there's actually a band called 'ghoti hook'...pronounced fish hook of course ;)

Posted by sarah @ 09/19/2002 07:03 PM EST

oh no, my french teacher told us about it after half the class admitted that it's difficult for them to learn french. he tried to get us to think from a different point of view.

Posted by Erma @ 09/17/2002 09:17 AM EST

hehe, are you taking a linguistic course right now?

Posted by Nara @ 09/17/2002 02:41 AM EST

you're right, i changed that. my french teacher made that whole point, so credits go to him.

Posted by Erma @ 09/16/2002 11:55 PM EST

FISH?! ROFL~!!!!!
I would rather pronounce "through" as "froo" not "thruf"... although "tough" IS "touf"... oh my, can you imagine "froof"? LOL

Posted by bog @ 09/16/2002 08:03 PM EST