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And we do pronounce the h in humor and good honor overhere.
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British?
Nope, the h in humor is incorrect. The Latin word was umor, but the h got added sometime in the Middle Ages. I see. I thought we were talking (at least partly) pronunciation; the H in hola has been dropped, but I certainly say an H in humor! but I should probably re-read the thread, because I likely mis-read it!
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AHD4 lists the Latin as both umor and humor. The H was gone in the Old French we stole it from so maybe it just got added in the same way as the B in doubt/i] and [i]debt or the C in perfect.
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And we do pronounce the h in humor and good honor overhere. no H for honor, here! heh
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I thought we were talking (at least partly) pronunciation;
I was talking about the US pronunciation of humor (hence the spelling). There was no aitch there in Latin (Classical at least), but it is pronounced because we spell it that way.
I should've probably been clearer in my declaration, but ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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His implication was "I'll not only say 'ces', but I'll not stop saying it." I once heard somebody say, "I know how to spell 'banana;' I just don't know when to stop."
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I just don't know when to stop.
When my father was learning how to sign his name ("Jimmy"), he would make some number of humps for the middle two ems. At least that's what his mother told me.
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I thought we were talking (at least partly) pronunciation;
I was talking about the US pronunciation of humor (hence the spelling). There was no aitch there in Latin (Classical at least), but it is pronounced because we spell it that way.
I should've probably been clearer in my declaration, but ... it's all good!
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