A man who only spoke Greek came to America for the first time. He realized that he needed to learn English, so he took a class. When questioned by his teacher, "How do you spell fish?" he replied "g-h-o-t-i". The teacher was very surprised as to how he could get such an answer since he was learning English so well. He asked the man, "How did you get that answer?" When the man replied, the teacher accepted his answer with a chuckle. What was his answer?

Hint: Think about the many oddities of the English language.

(In reply to wheee by DJ)

I think that's 'o' as in 'women' rather than in 'parody'. The latter has an unaccented syllable represented in the dictionary by a schwa (upside down e), but women has an i to represent the first vowel sound.

Posted by Charlie on 2003-03-20 09:51:59