Stephen Fry kinetic typography - Language

Stephen Fry's thoughts on pedantic language usage, taken from his podcast.
Yogisays...

Stephen Fry is awesome and now I'm going to have to check out all of these podcasts that I didn't know exist yet. I like the point about Shakespeare who it's said invented more words in the english language than anyone.

Bidoulerouxsays...

>> ^NordlichReiter:


aitch (ch)
n.
The letter h.
[French hache.]
-http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aitch



Your point being? "hache" in French is not aspired or expired or whatever. All "h" are silent in French and exist solely for decoration or etymology. As such, some words beginning with an "h" that used to be aspired in old French or in the native language will not allow liaison but that's it. Since in English both aspired and non aspired "h" exists, the distinction is more important.

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