or spent a lot of time in Calcutta; how else would he know about the relationship between a ghoti and his fish?
From the Batman TV Episode An Egg Grows in Gotham [2.13]
Robin: “Ghoti” is “fish”?
Batman: See here. English phonetics. GH becomes F, as in “tough” or “laugh”. O becomes I as in “women”. TI becomes SH as in “ration” or the word “nation”.
Robin: Holy semantics, Batman. You never cease to amaze me!
Batman: No time for compliments, Robin. We must thwart some criminals. To the Batmobile!
I knew it all along. Must go watch another Bong superhero, the bnoti-fingered Ulbharin from Uluberia, sometime soon at a movie theatre near me.
I have read this attributed to Bernard Shaw. Wait! That means Shaw was a Bong? Ah, the penny drops!
Posted by Karun | June 9, 2009, 10:20 pmobviously. GB=jibi=short for buddhijibi=intellectual. Shaw= Shaw Wallace, also from Calcutta. in the indian blogosphere, GB also stands for GreatBong. there you go.
Posted by samit | June 9, 2009, 10:28 pmI remember reading about ‘photi’ – at that time, ‘ghoti’ never occurred to me. Well that’s another addition to the ever-growing list, whose most famous members are Adidas (Adinath Das) and Monginis (Mon Ginish).
Posted by Kaushik Chatterji | June 9, 2009, 10:58 pmalso neruda, derrida etc., who are right up there with pheluda, tenida and ghonada (and the local versions thereof in every goli everywhere).
Posted by Monidipa | June 14, 2009, 3:57 amI’m glad I stumbled in here
Posted by mikimbizii | June 22, 2009, 3:39 pm