Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghoughphtheightteeau

Ghoughphtheightteeau was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP as a redirect.

Very bad attempt at a joke - while the similar Ghoti was marginally funny and is kind of a classic, this is a rather contrived attempt at humor. Maybe it can find a new lease on life on BJAODN -- Ferkelparade 07:58, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Delete - pointless, bad joke. TPK 08:27, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete - god dammit Jim, I'm an encyclopedia, not a joke book :o) Darksun 08:37, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Merge - Put under ghoti as an alternative. It takes a lot of work to find such terrible examples of english spelling! Kim Bruning 08:56, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete - not worthy of BJAODN - TB 11:04, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Patent nonsense. --Starx 11:31, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Merge: I'm with the man called Kim, here: This ought to be put as a "further example" in the Ghoti article. This stuff does take brain cells. Then kill the original article, of course. Geogre 12:45, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Merge and delete, and I've just done the merge. This joke is apparently currently making the rounds and "ghoughphtheightteeau" currently gets 269 Google hits. Someone more energetic than I might perhaps attempt to determine its origin. "ghoughphtheightteeau neighbor" and "ghoughphtheightteeau neighbour" get roughly equal numbers of hits BTW. I suspect the Brits though, as "hiccough" isn't a common U.S. spelling. [[User:Dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:44, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I agree that it should be deleted, or simply merged into Ghoti, but I just wanted to clarify that this isn't a new joke -- I read it in a language book twenty years ago. I'm sure it even predates that, because I'm pretty sure the book I read (whose title I can't remember) wasn't the originator. Bearcat 18:41, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Redirect to ghoti, merge has already been done. Encyclopedic information, the only issue is how to index it. Agree it is not new, I can't remember when I first heard it but long ago. Andrewa 01:48, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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