Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Heartfelt H

Submit H sentences by Saturday, April 23, using comments on this post.

Origins: fence or posts (1)
Greek: eta
Frequency: 8th most frequent letter in English (2)
"H" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is in English, as in other languages, a note of aspiration, sounded only by a strong emission of the breath, without any conformation of the organs of speech, and is therefore by many grammarians accounted no letter. " (3)

4 comments:

Sherry said...

Hester happily hosted hairy Horatio's hare hunt.

Brady said...
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Brady said...

Historically, histrionics have helped Harry hire horrible hosts.

Erin Gong said...

"Heave ho!" hollered hay harvesters, hefting heavy hauls.