Michael Everson a écrit :
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>> From: Michael Everson[SMTP:EVERSON@EVERTYPE.COM]
>> Sent: 23 janvier, 2002 13:01:48
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>> Subject: [Very-OT] Re: ü
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> Patrick uvâca:
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>> > silent h (honour, philharmonic), etc.)
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> Um, when was the last time h was aspirated in French?
In some dialects (around Liège and Verviers) it is still pronounced
today for words of Germanic origin (haut, honte, etc). As far as the
words of Latin origin are concerned, I don't think they ever were in
French (and in Anglo-Normand such as honour) since Latin lost this
phoneme relatively early (from memory). Old French writes honte, haut,
hache, honir (soit qui mal y pense) but onor (honneur in Modern French),
om (homme in Modern French). H for Germanic words, no h for Latin words.
The silent H was reintroduced by "scholars" and clerks in Middle French
and English got that nice H in honour.
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> By the way, I pronounce the h in philharmonic.
I believe this is not what my Webster and my Fowler's Modern English
Usage recommend.
Friendly,
Patrick
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