Horcrux etymology / RAB etymology / the letter H

[Gabriela]

 Catlady wrote:
> In Mexican Spanish, there are lots of J's and most of them are
> pronounced like H. (Some of them were X in transliterations of Nahuatl
> which was pronounced like the un-English gutteral represented by CH.)
> Some seem to be silent (e.g. Joaquin). I think Mt. San Jacinto is
> pronounced Yacinto but I don't know if that's Spanish.
>  
> There was no letter J in Latin. No letter U either. Jupiter was
> spelled IVPITER.

 Juli wrote:
> The J in spanish sounds like an H (as in horse). Mexico is translayed 
> into Mejico, and St Jacinto is is Hacinto (sort of)
> 

Hello everyone,

Juli is right, though the sound of J is a little stronger than the H
in horse. Sometimes the X sounds like that at the beginnig or middle
of a word e.g. Javier vs. Xavier. And sometimes G sounds like J when
preceding E or I e.g. Jorge sounds Horhe. And by the way, we don't
pronounce the J as Y. Thankfully our alphabet phonetically is a lot
simpler, only a few letters have more than one sound. I hope I didn't
make this worse. ;)

Gabriela
la mexicana (mehicana)