brodiejlb:
Finally, an old chestnut that might be unfamiliar to two or three of you - what common English word can be spelt ghoti?
I think it was Bernard Shaw who first came up with that crack. He was a passionate advocate of spelling reform, to which end he tried leaving out apostrophes (Im, youre, theres, isnt, etc). Didn't get him very far, maybe because he also insisted on spelling 'show' as 'shew'.
But then, he was Irish....