On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:36:24 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article , dpb wrote:

DerbyDad03 wrote:
...
But it's still wrong, no matter how many people misspell it.

...
... In the US, as in many other places around the world, you can
spell the name of your business (just about) any way you like. It's
perfectly legal and acceptable for Tom and Ray, along with their
*real* lawyers, to have decided to spell the second word in their
business name C-H-E-E-T-H-A-M. In no way is it "wrong" or
"misspelled", it's simply a fabricated word.
...

And, of course, in the area of peculiarly spelled or pronounced names, I
recall the English prof I once had who would say something like Tom
could decide to spell his name "j-a-c-k" and say "no, it's pronounced
like 'T-o-m'".

Brett "never mind the order of the letters it's pronounced 'Farve'"
Favre comes to mind.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one having trouble with that
one.


And of course there is ghoti, which is pronounced....


His extreme example was to illustrate that names are subject only to the
rules made up by the possessor of the name. Most go (more or less) by
the standards of the language but there's nothing that says they have to...

--

....the same way that fish is pronounced.





Take the gh from enough,
the o from women,
and the ti from motion.

So that's fish.