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Re: If you call me crazy again...

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 25, 2001, 4:52
John Cowan wrote:

>Dan Jones scripsit: > >> The original Latin name was /ha:/, IIRC. When initial /h/ became silent, > >What I would like to know is how the people who first wrote Germanic
languages
>*more romanico* (as opposed to the Greek-based Gothic script) learned to >apply the letter H to their /h/, since Latin had long since lost that
equation. Just speculating: (1) perhaps Church Latin maintained the pronunciation? or (2) Pronunciation of H must have survived _as something_ into the time when other European languages (including English) first began to be written. English or anglicized Irish monks, who would have been familiar with its use?