-sch-
-sch-
this letter group can represent five distinct sounds in english; it first was used by m.e. writers to render o.e. sc-, a sound now generally pr-nounced “-sh-.” sometimes it was miswritten for -ch-. it also was taken in from ger. (schnapps) and yiddish (schlemiel). in words derived from cl-ssical languages, it represents l. sch-, gk. skh- but in some of these words the spelling is a restoration and the pr-nunciation does not follow it (cf. schism).
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