The letter H, past, present, and future : $b A treatise, with rules for the silent H, based on modern usage; and notes on WH

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The letter H, past, present, and future : $b A treatise, with rules for the silent H, based on modern usage; and notes on WH

by Alfred Leach

EN·~1 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total
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Transcriber’s Note:

1:21
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THE LETTER H PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A Treatise: WITH RULES FOR THE SILENT H, BASED ON MODERN USAGE; AND NOTES ON WH.

0:24
3

PREFACE.

1:56
4

PREAMBLE.

10:15
5

ORIGIN AND DESCENT.

5:07
6

DISTRIBUTION.

5:47
7

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH H.

9:31
8

MODERN ASPIRATES.

13:19
9

THE SILENT H.

20:07
10

DIGRAPHS.

15:52

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Language

en

Duration

~1 hours (94K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

London: Griffith & Farran, 1880.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2023-09-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English language -- PhonologyPE

About the author

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Alfred Leach

d. 1892

Best known today for a wonderfully specific Victorian book about the letter H, this little-known writer turned a tiny piece of language into an unexpectedly lively subject. His surviving work offers a glimpse of how seriously pronunciation and social class could be treated in the 19th century.

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