{"id":7896,"date":"2019-08-21T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/words-with-silent-h\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:55:37","slug":"words-with-silent-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/words-with-silent-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Words with Silent H"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7893&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Words with Silent H<\/span> \u2013 \u00a0Because they were adopted from different foreign languages with varied forms of pronunciation, many words in English are pronounced differently from their spellings. For instance, some characters remain silent. \u2018H\u2019 is one among them. There are three groups of silent \/h\/ usages in English.<\/p>\n<p>The first group includes four words with \u2018h\u2019 as their first letter: \u2018hour,\u2019 \u2018honest,\u2019 \u2018honor,\u2019 and \u2018heir.\u2019 The article \u2018an\u2019 is applied with these words, instead of \u2018a\u2019, as they are considered to be words starting with a vowel sound. For example, it should be \u2018an hour,\u2019 not \u2018a hour.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>*Note: The words \u2018herb\u2019 is pronounced similarly with a silent \u2018h\u2019 by some in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the silent \u2018h\u2018 also often appears after the letter \u2018w.\u2019 However, this practice depends on the accent of the individual speaker. These words include question words (<em>\u2018<\/em><strong>what,\u2019 \u2018when,\u2019 \u2018where,\u2019 \u2018why,\u2019 and \u2018whether\u2019<\/strong>) and a few other common words (such as, \u2018whisper,\u2019 \u2018white,\u2019 \u2018wheel,\u2019 and \u2018while\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>The last category, which includes the largest number of words, is the silent \u2018h\u2019 following the letters \u2018c,\u2019 \u2018g,\u2019 and \u2018r,\u2019 as well as the prefix \u2018ex.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there are also loanwords from Asian languages with silent \u2018h,\u2019 such as \u2018Allah,\u2019 \u2018brahman,\u2019 and \u2018ghee.\u2019[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/blog_\/\">&gt;&gt;&gt; Read more click &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words with Silent H \u2013 \u00a0Because they were adopted from different foreign languages with varied forms of pronunciation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9993,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/9993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}