At 21:11 -0500 2002-01-23, Patrick Andries wrote:
>"In the first edition of this dictionary it was said that in many
>compounds whose second element begins with h the h is silent unless
>the accent falls on the syllable that it begins; thus philhellenic
>and philharmonic should not sound the h; in nihilism also it should
>be silent. Here too the speak-as-you-spell movement has been at
>work, and though the COD [Concise Oxford Dictionary] does not favour
>the pronunciation of the h in these words,
Not so, at least not in the ninth edition, 1998.
>it is in fact often heard
I wouldn't say I'd ever heard these words without the h.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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