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09/12/01 by holden

Line Spacing 11.3

In Italian H has no real phonological value. It is rather a diacritic grapheme. The most important uses are to differentiate certain short words,for example some present tenseforms of the verb avere “tohave” (hanno = they have, whereas anno = year), in short interjections (oh, ehi),and in the digraphs ch/k/ and gh /ɡ/. Some languages, [...]

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09/11/29 by holden

Word Spacing 11.2

In  the  French  language,  the  name  of  the  letter  is  pronounced  /aʃ/.  The  French  language classifies  words  that  begin  with  this  letter  in  two  ways  that  must  be  learned  to  use  French  properly,  even  though  it  is  a  silent  letter  either  way.  The  h  muet,  or  “mute  h“,  is  considered  as  though  the  letter  were [...]

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09/11/26 by holden

Space 10.2

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, variations of the letter are used to represent two sounds. The lowercase form, [h], represents the voiceless glottal fricative or ‘aspirate’, and the small capital form, [ʜ], represents the voiceless epiglottal fricative.

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09/07/29 by holden

Indent 10.1

Authorities disagree about the history of the letter’s name. The Oxford English Dictionary says the original name of the letter was /aha/; this became /aka/ in Latin, passed into English via Old French /atʃ/, and by Middle English was pronounced /aːtʃ/. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language derives it from French hache from [...]

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09/07/16 by holden

Centered 9.4

In most dialects of English, the name for the letter is pronounced /eɪtʃ/ and spelled aitch[1] or occasionally eitch. Pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ and hence a spelling of haitch is usually considered to be h-adding and hence nonstandard. It is, however, a feature of [[Hiberno-English][2] and other varieties of English, such as those of Malaysia and Singapore. [...]
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