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Why do photons and protons exhibit such anomalous behavior?
I first noticed in this answer that there is something sneaky going on with the word photon: its ‹t› is the stressed allophone of /t/, a fully aspirated [tʰ]. It does not reduce to [t] or [ɾ] the way ...
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Why do we spell “eureka”, not “heureka”?
Why is the spelling "eureka" by far more preferable to "heureka" in English? Greek vocabularies give "heureka" for the perfect to "heurisko".
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Usage of “an” before nouns beginning with an “h” where that “h” is not silent [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“A historic…” or “An historic…”?
Such as
an heinous crime
an hideous monstrosity
an hallucination
This always looks wrong to ...
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Aspirated letters vs. Silent letters
How are aspirated letters different from silent letters when pronouncing a word?
