Re: German Spelling Reform (fwd)

John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> FFlores wrote:
>
> > Spanish has the silent <h> everywhere, often in places where Latin
> > (or the original language in any case) didn't have it.
>
> That's because Latin /f/ became a secondary Spanish /h/ long
> after original Latin /h/ was lost.  FABULARE > /hablar/ > /ablar/,
> for example.
I'd forgotten those. But I was mainly talking about the <h>'s in
<hue>, <hui>, <hie>, etc., which are often orthographical convention.


--Pablo Flores