2020年7月6日 · In English, we have many words ending in or containing “gh”, but in some cases, the two letters are silent, while in others, it is pronounced as “f” . We have the words tough, …

2015年5月6日 · Gh in word-initial position was a scribal variant of g, pronounced /g/. It has no historical relation to the word-internal sound spelled gh. Here is a blog post about word-initial …

2011年6月29日 · The spelling gh was one of the usual ways of representing this sound in Middle English. The words are pronounced differently now because they underwent sound changes. …

2018年5月25日 · It was spelled GH in those cases, because it was pronounced [x], instead of [h]. Part of the change from Middle to Modern English was that the postvocalic [x] allophone of /h/ …

As for "ghoul" with the Arabic origin "ghul," the /gh/ sound is distinctly Arabic and made by pressing the back of the tongue close to the soft palate without completely closing the two …

There were two p, t, and k sounds in ancient Greek. The softer (aspirated) sounds were transliterated in Latin as ph, th, and ch. Then, in Greek, all three sounds weakened; …

Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization, by Alan C. L. Yu, 2013. There is independent evidence that the glide disappeared in words where /x/ became /f/: words like …

2016年8月13日 · In the dominant dialects of modern English, gh is almost always either silent or pronounced /f/ (see ough). It is thought that before disappearing, the sound became partially …

2022年10月28日 · You will note the irregularity of the "g" in "burg" - it varied immensely from the "x" in loch (/lɒx/), through modern j, hard 'g', soft 'g' a 'w' sound, a pure aspirant 'h', to …

2019年8月17日 · American dictionaries list /ˌvæn ˈɡoʊ/, with a silent gh, as the most common pronunciation. In the dialect of Holland, it is [ˈvɪnsɛnt fɑŋˈxɔx], with a voiceless v and g. He …