Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> For her birthday my wife received a German card game called
> Drahtseilakt.  (We are of the opinion that the best board and
> card games come from Germany, and this one looks interesting
> so far.)  My question, however, is how to pronounce the name -
> specifically, the |h|.   Is it silent?  Is it pronounced as [h],
> which feels awkward, but not impossible, to my English-speaking tongue
> in that position? Does it affect the preceding |a| somehow?
Intramorphemically, a following 'h' indicates that the preceeding vowel is long
- in this case, 'ah' spells [a:].

                                            Andreas

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