How could the word 'fish' be spelt 'ghoti'?
(The idea is said to be a jest by George Bernard Shaw, who campaigned to reform and simplify English spelling)

Pronounce‘gh’ as it is in ‘tough’,‘o’ as it is in ‘women’ and ‘ti’ as in palatial.

Viv

Try ghoti on the M/W search from here and it comes up with a surprise at the top of the List
Question why does it do that?

...and let me remind AP members that to search M/W for any word that appears on this site, just double click it!

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Originally posted by bedstor:
Try ghoti on the M/W search from here and it comes up with a surprise at the top of the List
Question why does it do that?

Because the programmer had a sense of humour, that's all (No, really. This little joke is found in other 'dictionaries' and 'spell checkers', according to the person on the site answerbank.co.uk, which is where I found this story.That's their only explanation)