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		Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s the Letter H (1880) (publicdomainreview.org)
		13 points by tintinnabula on March 3, 2022 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

gumby on March 3, 2022 | [–]

> And yet it is no exaggeration to say that, socially, H is of English letters the most important…

I love this.

kevin_thibedeau on March 3, 2022 | [–]

It's time for the aspirati to stop putting the wrong article in front of "History". It really doesn't make them look intelligent by pretending to have an unaspirated pronounciation while violating basic English euphony rules.

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