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Ghoti
Ghoti is a jocular respelling of "fish" (gh as in laugh, o as in women, ti as in nation), falsely attributed to George Bernard Shaw; the earliest confirmed use is an 1855 letter by Charles Ollier, and linguists note it violates English spelling rules.
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
IAST, the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, is a lossless diacritic-based scheme for romanizing Sanskrit and Indic scripts, established at the 1894 Geneva Congress of Orientalists and contrasted with ISO 15919, ITRANS, and Harvard-Kyoto.
IPA vowel chart with audio
IPA vowel chart with audio: interactive versions of the International Phonetic Association's vowel quadrilateral, charting 28 vowels by height, backness, and rounding, with recordings by Ladefoged, Wells, Esling, House, and Wikimedia contributors.
One small step
One small step: Neil Armstrong's disputed 1969 Moon quote, heard as "one small step for man" but claimed by him as "for a man"; NASA transcripts use (a), and a 2016 study shows speech-rate effects can make the article inaudible.
Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription, also called IPA or broad/narrow transcription, is the written representation of speech sounds using phonetic symbols; it ranges from phonemic (slashes) to narrow allophonic (brackets) detail and underpins linguistics, speech science, and clinical speech assessment.