Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Ray Brown wrote:
> It does indeed. But for some reason Esperantists in practice do not seem
> to like this. Even on the Internet the combos cx, hx, jx etc seemed to be
> preferred to ch, hh, jh etc. I don't know why.
Ambiguity.  Since "h" is an independent letter, there are occasional
compound words that have clusters like "ch" or "sh".  Though, I don't
know why they don't just introduce the apostrophe to distinguish /sh/
(s'h) from /S/ (sh) if they're so concerned about ambiguity.