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Originally Posted by myriverse
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Kudos. That's a bizarre pronunciation.
"Gh" is only pronounced like an F because of what precedes it. When it appears at the beginning, it's always pronounced like a G (ghost, ghoul, ghee, ghetto, etc.).
"Women" is a weird word. Its pronunciation follows no logic based on how it's spelled. The letter O itself actually doesn't factor into its pronunciation at all. We still pronounce it how we used to spell it: wimmen.
Ghoti is likely unavailable because someone's trying to emulate the mob boss.
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Not original with me. I'm not young, but its origin is 19th century and I'm not nearly that old. I always thought it was a George Bernard Shaw thing, but apparently not if the wiki article I just googled is correct.