[SENco-forum] Re literacy (madness)

I think it was actually promulgated by George Bernard Shaw who was a
keen advocate for alternative spelling!
Cheers
Judith

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-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Philip
MacMillan
Sent: 04 January 2007 00:14
To: SEN at tringham.net; Becta Senco
Subject: Re: [SENco-forum] Re literacy (madness)

Ghoti can never make the sound fish in English, gh only makes the /f/
sound
at the end of a word, o makes the /i/ only in the word women, ti only
makes
the /sh/ sound if it is the last but one phoneme e.g. nation, ration
etc.
Ghoti = fish was promulgated by the whole language conspiracy the same
nonsensical lot who said that children would learn to read just like
they
learned to talk by being immersed in speech  by being immersed in print.
It
was Smith who said that you cannot teach children to read.   There is a
runour that some of Goodman's early work was paid for by the Russians
who
were trying to destroy the US education system, very nearly succeeded.

Philip EP

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