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| − | Ordinarily a well-behaved letter, except when people talk about its "soft sound" (meaning [[J]]) or retain it in words where it's silent with us tho in [[de Camp]]'s Aryan America such words were pronounced "frickful", "thockless", etc. But G has been most grievously cursed with the [[purple]] poison of [[ghughu]], so that any word beginning with it (or for that matter many words beginning with [[H]] and other letters) may find itself altered to start with gh-. | + | Ordinarily a well-behaved letter, except when people talk about its "soft sound" (meaning [[J]]) or retain it in words where it's silent with us tho in [[L. Sprague de Camp|de Camp]]'s Aryan America such words were pronounced "frickful", "thockless", etc. But G has been most grievously cursed with the [[purple]] poison of [[ghughu]], so that any word beginning with it (or for that matter many words beginning with [[H]] and other letters) may find itself altered to start with gh-. |
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Revision as of 17:09, 28 March 2023
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| Ordinarily a well-behaved letter, except when people talk about its "soft sound" (meaning J) or retain it in words where it's silent with us. But G has been most grievously cursed with the purple poison of Ghughu, so that any word beginning with it (or for that matter many words beginning in H or other letters) may find itself altered to start with gh-. |
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| Ordinarily a well-behaved letter, except when people talk about its "soft sound" (meaning J) or retain it in words where it's silent with us tho in de Camp's Aryan America such words were pronounced "frickful", "thockless", etc. But G has been most grievously cursed with the purple poison of ghughu, so that any word beginning with it (or for that matter many words beginning with H and other letters) may find itself altered to start with gh-. |
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