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Thursday's Wordle begins with the rarest letter in the alphabet. Here's our list of all the letters ranked by popularity.
Deriving from medieval French hache or “axe” (hatchet and hashtag are relatives), it also arrived in English H-less (like humble and herb). It’s a curious letter name being, as the Oxford ...
So it’s not surprising it’s taking off in some parts of the English-speaking world. When the letter H is pronounced beginning with the letter sound it makes, children have an easier time ...
Both the Cambridge Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary’s websites also feature audio clips ruling that the letter H is pronounced the same way. Discussion over how to pronounce the ...
Gareth Hardwick, former secretary of the Queen's English Society ... Why do so many people now pronounce the letter 'H' as 'haitch', including Amol Rajan on #r4today? It's Horrible with a capital ...
As English is a complex language ... to spell the multiple sounds in consonant combinations involving the letter “H.” That’s when it hit us: “H” really is a magic letter.