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“creative respelling” of a very common word, and it’s blowing the collective mind of competitive brain tease enthusiasts.[Warning: Spoilers below]Brace yourselves: Ghoti is actually a grammatically correct — albeit alternate —spelling of the word “fish.” Confused?

The proof is in the phonetics.Apparently, the “gh” makes an “f” sound like in “enough,” the “o” makes an “i” sound like in “women” and the “ti” makes a “sh” sound like in “nation,” multiple TikTokers explained of the visual challenge with more than 13.4 million viral variations on the video streaming platform.ghoti #ghoti #fish #phonetics #ABC #words #letters #alphabet #abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz #joke #funny #humour #playonwords #English #Englishlesson #Englishclass #Englishlanguage #British #britishhumour #vocabularyThis weird wordplay actually dates back to December 1855, according to the brains at the Language Log blog.

The first confirmed use ofthe word ghoti occurredin vintage correspondence between British publisher/author Charles Ollier and culture critic and poet Leigh Hunt.

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