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PREAMBLE, 9
ORIGIN AND DESCENT, 17
Original Alphabets—Primitive forms of H—Classic Forms.
DISTRIBUTION, 22
Phonetic Significance of Early H’s—Aryan and Other H’s.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH H, 27
Raucity of the Anglo-Saxon H—Norman Influences—Decline of the
English H.
MODERN ASPIRATES, 35
Definitions—Terms of Convenience—Varieties of H—Vocalized and
Unvocalized Breath—The H in Speech—Physiological Phonation of
Aspirated Vowels.
SILENT H, 46
Orthoepists—Early Records of Silent H’s—Modern Pronouncing
Dictionaries—Modern Usage—An American Hypothesis Considered.
DIGRAPHS, 62
Review of the Principal Digraphs of H—The Perfect Digraph
WH—Phonic Analysis of W—WH=ʍ=An Unvocalized W.
PERMUTATION, 76
Philological Science—Grimm’s Law—The Future of H.
APPENDIX, 82
Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A., on Silent H’s.