The sound also is heard in words from more distant languages (as in cheetah, chintz), and the digraph also is used to represent the sound in Scottish loch. In some languages (Welsh, Spanish, Czech) ch- can be treated as a separate letter and words in it are alphabetized after -c- (or, in Czech and Slovak, after -h-).
#Chivalry code of conduct code
David Crouch, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull concluded in his research that the Code of Chivalry does in fact date back to ancient times. It was developed between the 11th and 12th centuries. Sometimes ch- is written to keep -c- hard before a front vowel, as still in modern Italian. The Code of Chivalry was the code of conduct followed by the knights during the medieval period. 1500 such words were regularly spelled with a -c- ( Crist, cronicle, scoole), but Modern English has preserved or restored the etymological spelling in most of them ( chemical, chorus, monarch).
Most uses of -ch- in Roman Latin were in words from Greek, which in Greek would be pronounced correctly as /k/ + /h/, as in modern blockhead, but most Romans would have said merely /k/, and this was the regular pronunciation in English. It turns up as well in words from classical languages ( chaos, echo, etc.). Under French influence, -ch- also was inserted into Anglo-Saxon words that had the same sound (such as bleach, chest, church) which in Old English still was written with a simple -c-, and into those that had formerly been spelled with a -c- and pronounced "k" such as chin and much.Īs French evolved, the "t" sound dropped out of -ch-, so in later loan-words from French - ch- has only the sound "sh-" ( chauffeur, machine (n.), chivalry, etc.). It presupposed the admiration of one woman among all the others, the honor to her and gentleness. The last type of chivalry was the most exciting and essential in the Middle Ages since it concerned the treatment of women. In some French dialects, including that of Paris (but not that of Picardy), Latin ca- became French "tsha." This was introduced to English after the Norman Conquest, in words borrowed from Old French such as chaste, charity, chief (adj.). The code of conduct required them to be faithful to the Church and to worship God. Digraph used in Old French for the "tsh" sound.
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