On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:57:12 +0100, Derek Parnell <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:59:08 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
If you work with kids teaching them to read phonetically (rather than
look-say), you'll discover that by and large, the phonetic rules work
very well. They'll pronounce about 80% of the unfamiliar words
reasonably correctly.
I wound the bandage around the wound.
Wind up the window to stop the wind coming in.
And of course there's "ghoti" ;-)
Ghoti is nothing. In norwegian, we write 'hund' and pronounce it 'bikkje'. :p
