Re: If you call me crazy again...
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, July 25, 2001, 4:18 |
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.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter
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