http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti Though this point has pretty much been raised, English is hard too - it doesn't follow it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti Though this point has pretty much been raised, English is hard too - it doesn't follow it's own rules and borrows from so many languages. The arguments in this article (excepting the ones about the writing system) can be applied to so many languages. For bonus points, why isn't "gauge" pronounced the same as "gouge"?