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The opposite of H-dropping, called H-insertion or H-adding, sometimes occurs as a hypercorrection in English accents that typically drop H. It is commonly noted in literature from late Victorian times to the early 20th century that some lower-class people consistently drop h in words that should have it, while adding h to
As such words become naturalised in English, there is a tendency to drop the diacritics, as has happened with many older borrowings from French, such as hôtel. Words that are still perceived as foreign tend to retain them; for example, the only spelling of soupçon found in English dictionaries (the OED and others) uses
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
U with short right leg by Otto Bremer and Jakob Vetsch [citation needed] ꭏ U bar with short right leg Ɥ ɥ ᶣ Turned H IPA /ɥ/ IPA voiced labial–palatal approximant, Dan / Gio orthography in Liberia; cf. Cyrillic: Ч ч: Ɯ ɯ: Turned M IPA /ɯ/ IPA close back unrounded vowel, Zhuang (1957–1986); cf. Cyrillic: Ш ш ꟺ ᵚ: Small ...
couldn’t: could not couldn’t’ve: could not have cuppa: cup of daren’t: dare not / dared not daresn’t: dare not dasn’t: dare not didn’t: did not doesn't: does not don’t: do not / does not [4] dunno (informal) do not know / don't know d’ye (informal) do you / did you d’ya (informal) do you / did you e’en (poetic) even e’er ...
Generally, the Middle English vowels descended from the corresponding Old English ones, but there were certain alternative developments. The Middle English open syllable lengthening caused short /o/ to be mostly lengthened to /ɔː/ (an opener back vowel) in open syllables, a development that can be seen in words like nose.
Vowels were diphthongized in Middle English before /h/, and new diphthongs arose in Middle English by the combination of vowels with Old English w , g /ɣ/ → /w/, and ġ /j/. For more information, see the section below. The only conditional development considered in detail below is Middle English open-syllable lengthening.
Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...