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Here's a fun (related) one. I don't know to whom to attribute it. I got it from a colleague in grad school.
What does it spell? The English spelling system is so screwy, you can make a decent case that it spells "fish".
Gh -- from enough (f)
o -- from women (i)
ti -- from nation (sh)
Edit: spacing and one addition
I'm glad I checked Wikipedia before just talking out my ass, as the attribution is less clear than I thought, but the first I heard of this was in Phish circles back in the 90s!
Yeah, that's why I was remiss to give an attribution.