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Coragyps
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02-02-2006 6:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by Parasomnium
02-02-2006 4:51 PM

Re: Ghoti
That was Oliver Wendell Holmes, according to my father:
"gh" as in cough
"o" as in women
"ti" as in nation
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And Voltaire supposedly said he wished that the plague would take half of the English, and ague the other half.
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