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And so, the English youth restored H to words like hat, and even at the start of many French words like humble, which had entered English H-less (the Romans pronounced their Hs, but the French ...
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Jun 26, 2018 · The ins and outs of H. The story of the weakly articulated H is murkily entwined with the story of its name. Long gone from Old English words like hring “ring”, hnecca “neck” and hlūd ...
Apr 9, 2024 · That is part of the reason H has become Britain’s most contentious letter. It happens that the sound to which aitch gives a name was already a class indicator. In the Victorian mind, dropping ...
Oct 28, 2010 · So too is there a mystery as to why certain pronunciations cause such strong feeling. Take the eighth letter of the alphabet, pronounce it haitch and then look for the slightly agonised look in ...
Why is the letter ‘H’ so damn controversial? ... The letter “H” itself, which is correctly pronounced “aitch”. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter. The difference is ...
Jun 7, 2018 · 5 Minute Read. Like Dr. Seuss’ Star-Belly Sneetches and Plain-Belly Sneetches, there are two types of creatures — haitchers with H on their 8th letter name and aitchers with “none upon thars”. That H isn’t so big. It’s really so small You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all. But it does — the tiny H on “ (h)aitch ...
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The letter h was used because of it's relative evanescence in spoken language. Some dialects pronounced it, some didn't, and these things have switched off over the years, so h was a logical choice because it was there, but didn't seem to have a whole lot of use. In Polish, they use a -z- for this purpose, and in Hungarian as well. 3. holytriplem.
