George Bernard Shaw's classic joke about English spelling is that his nonsense word ghoti should be pronounced fish. He explained: gh = like the gh in cough = fo = like the o in women = i ti = like the ti in nation = sh ghoti = fish.
This ſlaughter vvas foretold by many prodigies. […] In their Senate houſe ſtrange noiſes vvere heard: The Theater reſounded vvith hovvlings and yellings: Houſes vvere ſeene under the vvater of Tamis, and the Arme of the ſea beneath it over flovved the bankes as read as bloud to ſee to, […]
Get lost, you clonker!
The common skivvy from the mortuary clings immoveably to the priest′s bed, which is just as immoveably guarded by the grandmother, who drives her off with a chamberpot. The skivvy is the photographer′s widow, trying to take a picture.
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