languagehat.com: GHOTI. I imagine most of you are familiar with the old wheeze about fish being spelled ghoti, with gh pronounced as in laugh, o as in women, and ti as in nation. It's regularly attributed to Shaw, but no one has ever found it in his writings, and it turns out, that that's because it goes back before he was born in Public bookmarkswith commentenglishfrancoisghotilanguagelanguagehatshaw