Showing posts with label H. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Winner for H

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

p.s. Look for several letter illustrations (B, C, and D) coming soon.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Vote for H by Tuesday night

Vote for the sentence you think should represent H in the alphAmuse book.

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)