<P> The Greek eta' Η' in Archaic Greek alphabets still represented / h / (later on it came to represent a long vowel, / ɛː /). In this context, the letter eta is also known as heta to underline this fact . Thus, in the Old Italic alphabets, the letter heta of the Euboean alphabet was adopted with its original sound value / h / . </P> <P> While Etruscan and Latin had / h / as a phoneme, almost all Romance languages lost the sound--Romanian later re-borrowed the / h / phoneme from its neighbouring Slavic languages, and Spanish developed a secondary / h / from / f /, before losing it again; various Spanish dialects have developed (h) as an allophone of / s / or / x / in most Spanish - speaking countries, and various dialects of Portuguese use it as an allophone of / ʀ /.' H' is also used in many spelling systems in digraphs and trigraphs, such as' ch', which represents / tʃ / in Spanish, Galician, Old Portuguese and English, / ʃ / in French and modern Portuguese, / k / in Italian, French and English, / x / in German, Czech language, Polish, Slovak, one native word of English and a few loanwords into English, and / ç / in German . </P> <P> For most English speakers, the name for the letter is pronounced as / eɪ tʃ / and spelled' aitch' or occasionally' eitch' . The pronunciation / heɪtʃ / and the associated spelling' haitch' is often considered to be h - adding and is considered nonstandard in England . It is, however, a feature of Hiberno - English . </P> <P> The perceived name of the letter affects the choice of indefinite article before initialisms beginning with H: for example "an H - bomb" or "a H - bomb". The pronunciation / ˈheɪtʃ / may be a hypercorrection formed by analogy with the names of the other letters of the alphabet, most of which include the sound they represent . </P>

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