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09/04/17 by holden

Connotative 3.2

H occurs as a single-letter grapheme (with value /h/ or silent) and in various digraphs, such as ch (/tʃ/, French /ʃ/, Greek and Italian /k/, German & Scots /x/), gh (silent, /g/, or /f/) , ph (Greek words with /f/), rh (Greek words with /r/), sh (/ʃ/), th (either /θ/ like thin or /ð/ like [...]

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09/04/16 by holden

Denotative 3.1

H is the eighth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in both British and American English is aitch[1] (pronounced /eɪtʃ/), though it is also pronounced haitch /heɪtʃ/ in some dialects. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this symbol is used to represent two sounds. Its lowercase form, [h], represents the voiceless glottal fricative or ‘aspirate’, [...]