The Letter H, Past, Present, and Future
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The title, The Letter H, Past, Present, and Future, points to a book about the letter H. The text mentions a view held by some that the Normans would not pronounce gutturals, and disregarded the Saxon terminal h's. The text lists the English words in which GH is an initial digraph as ghastly, ghost, and gherkin.
The text says PH has the sound of f and SH is the French j. The text says that in Latin the H was at first harsh, and that Quintilian complained of the h-dropping propensities of his contemporaries. The text gives Webster's verdict, described as curt and concise, that the pronunciation yumur is odiously vulgar.
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- Author
- Alfred Leach
- Pages
- 45
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
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