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2 Name in English
For most English speakers, the name for the letter is
pronounced /et/ and spelled 'aitch'[1] or occasionally
'eitch'. The pronunciation /het/ and the associated
spelling 'haitch' is often considered to be h-adding and
is considered nonstandard in England.[2] It is, however, a
feature of Hiberno-English[3] and other varieties of English, such as those of Malaysia, India, Newfoundland,
and Singapore. In Northern Ireland, it is a shibboleth as
Protestant schools teach aitch and Catholics haitch. In the
Republic of Ireland, the letter h is generally pronounced
as haitch.
The perceived name of the letter aects the choice of
indenite article before initialisms beginning with H: for
Writing cursive forms of H
example an H-bomb or a H-bomb. The pronunciation /het/ may be a hypercorrection formed by analogy
[1]
or haitches) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin
with the names of the other letters of the alphabet, most
alphabet.
of which include the sound they represent.[4]
The haitch pronunciation of h has spread in England, being used by approximately 24% of English people born
1 History
since 1982[5] and polls continue to show this pronunciation becoming more common among younger native
The original Semitic letter Heth most likely represented
speakers. Despite this increasing number, pronunciation
the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (). The form of the without the /h/ sound is still considered to be standard in
letter probably stood for a fence or posts.
England, although the pronunciation with /h/ is also atThe Greek eta '' in Archaic Greek alphabets still rep- tested as a legitimate variant.[2]
resented /h/ (later on it came to represent a long vowel, Authorities disagree about the history of the letters name.
//). In this context, the letter eta is also known as heta The Oxford English Dictionary says the original name of
to underline this fact. Thus, in the Old Italic alphabets, the letter was [aha] in Latin; this became [aka] in Vulthe letter heta of the Euboean alphabet was adopted with gar Latin, passed into English via Old French [at], and
its original sound value /h/.
by Middle English was pronounced [at]. The AmeriWhile Etruscan and Latin had /h/ as a phoneme, almost all Romance languages lost the soundRomanian
later re-borrowed the /h/ phoneme from its neighbouring Slavic languages, and Spanish developed a secondary
/h/ from /f/, before losing it again; various Spanish dialects have developed [h] as an allophone of /s/ or /x/ in
most Spanish-speaking countries, and various dialects of
Portuguese use it as an allophone of //. 'H' is also used
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RELATED CHARACTERS
Other languages
4 Related characters
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H with diacritics:
IPA-specic symbols related to H:
: Latin letter hwair, derived from a ligature of
the digraph hv, and used to transliterate the Gothic
letter (which represented the sound [h])
4.2
References
4.3
h : Planck constant
: reduced Planck constant
: Double-struck capital H
Computing codes
Other representations
See also
American Sign Language grammar
List of hieroglyphs/H
9 External links
Media related to H at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary denition of H at Wiktionary
The dictionary denition of h at Wiktionary
Lubliner, Coby. 2008. The Story of H. (essay on
origins and uses of the letter h)
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