Earliest Reference to "Ghoti"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>  In this country, that is.  I take it that British and Irish papers are
> not yet searchable.

They are searchable to some extent -- the Times, the Scotsman, some papers
in Newspaperarchive.

Fred Shapiro


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