As illustrated by Coulmas, there is no causal relation between the presence of
the phoneme /h/ and the one of the grapheme :
Consider, for instance, Latin-derived words such as habit, heretic, hotel and
hospital in English where the initial is pronounced, although it had
already ceased to be p
Ahem, that would be vulgare pecus...
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, 17:55 Eric Streit, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> an interesting conference about the 'French orthographe" and how it was
> defined (and, no, this was not logical at all).
>
> The conference is in French, but with subtitles, I hope you can understand.
oups, I forgot the link; here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YO7Vg1ByA8
Eric
Le 20/08/2022 à 18:38, Eric Streit a écrit :
Hi,
an interesting conference about the 'French orthographe" and how it was
defined (and, no, this was not logical at all).
The conference is in French, but wit
Hi,
an interesting conference about the 'French orthographe" and how it was
defined (and, no, this was not logical at all).
The conference is in French, but with subtitles, I hope you can understand.
Orthograph was used to separate the "vulgus pecus" from the "educated
people". It was never
May be, this is a misunderstanding by some teachers who do pronounce it
„istory“ or a joke by some students, in English this word is pronounced with an
„h“, and therefore it seems to be impossible to write it without an „h“ but to
pronounce it with an „h“ at the beginning of the word, according
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 6:23 AM Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <
xetex@tug.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Many readers of this mailing list are
> native English language speakers and
> the following question is for them.
>
> Someone claimed that English people (I say
> more generally English la
The Indo-European root is _*weyd-_ 'see' > _*weydtōr_ 'seer, knower,
examiner' > ἵστωρ. According to Rix's small historical grammar which is the
only relevant source I have to hand at the moment Attic has _hVs-_ for
_*wVs-_ (V = a vowel), although the only example he gives is ἕσπερος, cf..
Latin _v
English (and French and German and many other languages) respect words of Greek
origin and
represent the rough breathing in some way (`H' in Latin alphabet, `Г' in
Cyrillic alphabet, `ه' in Arabic,
'ハ' in Japanese, etc.).
Greeks themselves have chosen to destroy this cultural heritage by adoptin
On 20/08/2022 10:21, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX wrote:
Someone claimed that English people (I say
more generally English language speakers)
learn at school why you write history and
not istory. Since I do not know I'd this holds, I
am asking: Is this true? Does someone who
has graduated fro
Hi everybody,
Many readers of this mailing list arenative English language speakers andthe
following question is for them.
Someone claimed that English people (I saymore generally English language
speakers) learn at school why you write history andnot istory. Since I do not
know I'd this holds,
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