8th letter of the basic Latin alphabet
How do you pronounce the letter "H"? /eɪtʃ/ or /heɪtʃ/?
Was the letter H silent in Classical Latin? If not, why then modern Romance languages don’t pronounce it?
H was pronounced in Classical Latin, but Vulgar Latin dropped the H. Vulgar Latin is what modern Romance languages evolved from. I’m pretty sure I remember some latin writer complaining about how common people would say “oc” instead of “hoc”
More on reddit.comTIL that the name of the letter H is usually spelt "aitch" and that "haitch," with the H spoken, is just a regional variant, though an increasingly common one.
In the US I've never heard anyone pronounce the h, but when watching British TV shows they almost always do
More on reddit.comWhy are so many people commenting with just the letter "H"?
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First of all I'm not confused about how this letter is pronounced. I've been taught it's the former pronunciation all along and none of the dictionaries recognise the latter. But I observed there has been an increasing surge of people, many YouTubers included, that adopted the /heɪtʃ/ pronunciation, which vexed me to no end. I even saw some teachers of English pronounced the letter like that, which is alarming to say the least.