Timeline for Why does the word "school" contain an 'h'?
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| Aug 26, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1165866505952813057 | ||
| Aug 23, 2019 at 18:13 | comment | added | Davo | Read the answer below, please. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 17:47 | comment | added | marcellothearcane | @Davo I still have a question after checking etymonline: schola --> scol --> school - why did English put the h back in after old English dropped it? | |
| Aug 22, 2019 at 18:59 | comment | added | KarlG | @Spencer: what region? | |
| Aug 22, 2019 at 18:57 | answer | added | KarlG | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 18:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 18, 2019 at 16:28 | comment | added | Spencer | @Janus It's a fairly distinctive American regional accent. Anyway, tongue slides forward on the palate for "scooter" but backward in "school". And I realize now the "u" in "school" is not [u] but closer to [ʊ]. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 16:20 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Spencer English does not distinguish aspirated and non-aspirated plosives after sibilants; aspiration is not normal in that context. So if you have an aspirated k in school, that’s definitely idiosyncratic (I assume you also have one in scooter?). | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 16:15 | comment | added | David | Because that’s the way it’s spelled. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | Lambie | Short answer from the OED: Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin schola, scola. The h was there already. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 15:56 | comment | added | Spencer | From my own perspective, I do not pronounce "school" with a simple [k], but instead an aspirated [k<sup>h</sup>], probably a phonotactic effect, because it comes before an open vowel [u]. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | Davo | Have you looked up the word's etymology - perhaps at etymonline.com ? What did you find, and what questions do you still have? | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 15:11 | comment | added | Lambie | There is an entire "dissertation" on this in the OED. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 15:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 18, 2019 at 15:07 | history | asked | M. Treiber | CC BY-SA 4.0 |