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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: The Naming of Letters
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:40:20 GMT
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In article <33dfae64.14653153@news.cdc.com>,
Jitze Couperus <Jitze.Couperus@cdc.spam.filter.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:29:06 +0100, Ben Walsh <benw@iona.com> wrote:
>
>>it. Dangerous generalisation: there is no word in French with an
>>aspirated initial "h".
>>
>
>This accounts for the fact that I could never get a Parisian
>cabby to take me to "Les Halles" - he always thought I was
>talking about Les Sa^les

French grammarians, being French, take "aspirated" to mean something
totally different when applied to French <h>s than what it means when
applied to <h>s elsewhere.  I think Mr. Walsh clearly meant "pronounced
with audible aspiration" rather than "preventing liaison".  In other
words, French has no [h].  It may, however,  have /h/ depending on how one
writes the phonological rules for liaison.
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