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Originally Posted by kaev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My biggest disappointment on joining this server was to find that Ghoti was unavailable as a name (pronounce it same as "fish": 'gh' as in laugh, 'o' as in women, 'ti' as in caution.)

Kudos. That's a bizarre pronunciation.

"Gh" is only pronounced like an F because of what precedes it. When it appears at the beginning, it's always pronounced like a G (ghost, ghoul, ghee, ghetto, etc.).

"Women" is a weird word. Its pronunciation follows no logic based on how it's spelled. The letter O itself actually doesn't factor into its pronunciation at all. We still pronounce it how we used to spell it: wimmen.

Ghoti is likely unavailable because someone's trying to emulate the mob boss.