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Alphabet Fifteen Interpretive Designs Drawn And Arranged With Explanatory Text And Illustrations (1918)

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947 · New York : M. Kennerly · leaf 64

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H, as an aspirate, was borrowed from the Phoe' nicians by the Asiatic Greeks, but they, soon los' ing the aspirate, used it to represent long E. The western Greeks retained the aspirate longer and the Romans who adopted their alphabet used H as an aspirate only, as we now do.

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