How do you say "Botia"

[joephys]

GHOTI spells fish!! :joke:

 

[JoeQuality]

Actually, there IS a language where the letters "tia" are pronounced "sha", but I'll be danged if I can remember what it is. Regardless, that's probably where you are getting it from. A word like that.

If I could only remember . . . hrm.

Roan

just off the top of my head: Loatian (adjective for the country Laos)

 

[Roan Art]

just off the top of my head: Loatian (adjective for the country Laos)

Heh. Yah, there's that

I was thinking of a word used in the English language though that when pronounced properly the the "tia" is said as "sha".

Oh, I know where to look!

Going there now . . .

Roan

 

[Roan Art]

Martial (martial arts), spatial, martian -- but these words don't end in tia

AH! Scotia, as in Nova Scotia. Latin for New Scotland. Interesting. Meriam Webster says Scotia is pronounced as "SKOW-tee-ya" but Nova Scotia is "SKOW-sha" and so is the Scotia (SKOW-sha) sea.

Huh.

Roan

 

[Leopardess]

Inertia.

 

[mykidsmylife]

Martial (martial arts), spatial, martian -- but these words don't end in tia

AH! Scotia, as in Nova Scotia. Latin for New Scotland. Interesting. Meriam Webster says Scotia is pronounced as "SKOW-tee-ya" but Nova Scotia is "SKOW-sha" and so is the Scotia (SKOW-sha) sea.

Huh.

Roan

Oh man...now my head hurts

Okay...I'm wrong, I give. LOL. I may have got it from how we say Nova Scotia, then again.....I am chronically confused

 

[YoFishboy]

You say bow-she-ya, I say bow-tee-ya....
bow-she-ya, bow-tee-ya
bow-tee-ya, bow-she-ya
let's call the fish a loach....

 

[Blinky]

ROTFL :laugh:

 

[Roan Art]

Inertia.

THAT'S IT!

Thank you, Leopardess

Roan

 

[Roan Art]

Oh man...now my head hurts

Okay...I'm wrong, I give. LOL. I may have got it from how we say Nova Scotia, then again.....I am chronically confused

Nah, I'm just trying to show why someone would pronounce it that way.

Roan