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13 Mar 2016, 11:24 am

In Spanish, artista (‘artist’) can be misspelled hartista, as the letter h is always silent unless it’s part of the digraph ch. This respelling, however, suggests the mangled word comes from harto (‘fed up’), rather than arte (‘art’), therefore implying the hartista bores or annoys the hell out of their audience.

At any rate, what is boring is dull and hence pointless, q.e.d.


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13 Mar 2016, 2:14 pm

The only occurences of the German "h" being pronounced like the English "h" are at the beginning of a syllable. All other cases are pronounced like in the Scottish "ch."


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13 Mar 2016, 2:21 pm

The above reminded me of this.

The name of the US state of Texas, is in Russian Техас, where the letter looking like x is actually kha which should be pronounced like "kh." For historical reasons, however, the Russians do pronounce it like teksas, thus doing a little violence to Russian grammar.


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13 Mar 2016, 2:23 pm

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13 Mar 2016, 2:30 pm

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14 Mar 2016, 1:03 pm

Krabo wrote:
The above reminded me of this.

The name of the US state of Texas, is in Russian Техас, where the letter looking like x is actually kha which should be pronounced like "kh." For historical reasons, however, the Russians do pronounce it like teksas, thus doing a little violence to Russian grammar.


Actually, Teksas is a spelling pronunciation in English. The name comes from Spanish, and, in this language, it is indeed pronounced Tekhas, exactly like the plural common noun tejas ('roof tiles'). The letter x used to represent this phoneme in Spanish (as in Quixote, whose modern spelling is Quijote), but it's been entirely replaced by j with this phonetic value, except in a handful of idiosyncratic proper nouns like México, Texas and Ximénez.


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