tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 23 14:15:19 2003
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Re: New Member/Syll... correction
ja'pu' qeyS:
>Could you give some examples of words that begin with a
>vowel (orthographically) and that start with a /h/, since I
>can't think of any...
jIjang:
>honor, heir, hour, herb, homage, honest...
DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'. qeyS vIyajHa'pu'. My examples are all
of English words which begin with a vowel *sound* and start with "h"
orthographically. That's what Quvar was talking about when he mentioned
the added "h".
In some dialects of English, words like "ever" and "end" are pronounced
with a distinct /h/ sound at the beginning. Interestingly, those same
dialects typically replace the /h/ at the beginning of words like "heaven"
and "hand" with a glottal stop.
"Hin 'ereford, 'artford, hand 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen."
- Eliza Doolittle, "My Fair Lady"
That's marginally similar to the documented dropping of syllable-ending {H}
and softening of syllable-starting {H} in some Klingon dialects. It's also
similarly considered to be subtandard speech.
-- ghunchu'wI'