Ghoti can never ever be fish. Gh would have to be at the end , rather than the beginning, and ti would have to be medial. TYhis that famoue irishman GB Shaw's joke.....he wanted to simplify English orthography, little realising that its morpho phonemic nature allow us to see the difference between our many hohophones. Carol Chomsky declared english orthography to be just about the optimum means of deriving meaning ( rather than sound) from writing. |Losing the 'history' of the word by systemysing spelling is dealt with in the following cautionary tale

A proposed plan to gradually update the way to spell things in english. In Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling,so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y"and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais"ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld