On 2018-07-17 03:25, Tim Chase wrote:
On 2018-07-17 01:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
In English, I think most people would prefer to use a different
term for whatever "sh" and "ch" represent than "character".
The term you may be reaching for is "consonant cluster"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant_cluster
They are digraphs, 2 characters that are treated as a single unit.
As it says in the first paragraph: "a consonant cluster, consonant
sequence or consonant compound is a group of consonants which have no
intervening vowel."
"sh" is a single phoneme (sound) that happens to be written in English
with 2 letters.
"ch" usually represents 2 phonemes, basically the sounds of "t" followed
by "sh"; other times it's "k" (e.g. in "echo"); occasionally it's "sh"
(e.g. in "champagne").
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