Verwandte Artikel zu Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853
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Excerpt: ...a maund, and those who partook of its contents maunders. W. Chaffers . Old Bond Street. THE LETTER H IN HUMBLE. (Vol. viii., p. 229.) The recent attempt to introduce a mispronunciation of the word humble should be resisted by every one who has learned the plain and simple rule of grammar, that a becomes an before a vowel or a silent h. That the rule obtained a considerable time ago, we have only to look into the Book of Common Prayer to prove, where the congregation are exhorted to come with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart, and I believe it will be admitted that the compilers of that work fully understood the right pronunciation. It may assist to settle the question by giving the etymology of the word humble. It is derived from the Celtic uim, the ground, Latin humus. Umal in Celtic is humble, lowly, obedient; and the word signifies the bending of the mind or disposition, just as a man would kneel or become prostrate before a superior. Fras. Crossley . In the course of a somewhat long life I have resided in the North of England, in the West, and in London, upwards of twenty years each, and my experience is directly the reverse of that of Mr. Dawson . I have very rarely heard the h omitted in humble, and when I have heard it, always considered a vulgarity. The u at the beginning of a word is always aspirated. I believe the only words in which the initial h is not pronounced are derived from the Latin. If that were the general rule, which, however, it is not, as in habit, herb, &c., still, where h precedes u, it would be pronounced according to the universal rule for the aspiration of u. E. H. The letter h to be passed unsounded in those words which are of Latin origin.
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