We Interrupt this Broadcast for the Letter:

H. A lovely letter all things considered. It is the eighth letter of the latin alphabet and the tenth letter of the Romanian alphabet. Either way it is proceded by G and followed by I.

The Brits, Canadians, and Americans all pronounce it "aitch". More or less anyway. The francophones don't pronounce at all, 90% of the time.

It comes from the Egyptian heiroglyph fence, which over time shortened to only one horizontal bar between two longer vertical bars. The Greek called this letter eta.

In binary, the capital letter H is 01001000.

The NATO phonetic alphabet for H is Hotel.

H is the symbol for Hydrogen.

H is also the military designation for helicopters.

H has been the title of a Korean film, a French tv series, and a song by Tool. Never heard of any of them.

H is also the Planck constant, 6.626 times 10 to the -34.

The CIA World Factbook lists 7 countries under the letter H: Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Holy See (Vatican City), Honduras, Hong Kong, Howland Island, and Hungary.

England had 8 King Henry's, and France has had 4.

Good Hs: horses, homes, hens, Hawaii, honey, hippies, hope, happiness, hugging, help, honor

Not so good Hs: hornets, hockey, hillbillies, hell, hogs, hippies, hitting, hoarding, hackers

Girl H names include: Hayley (in a variety of spellings), Hannah, Harmony, Harriet, Heidi, Helen, Heather, Hillary, Holly, Hope

Boy H names include: Harry, Harold, Harvey, Hayden (multitude of spellings), Heath, Hector, Henry, Herbert, Howard, Humphrey, Hunter

Hope you have a happy hour honoring the letter H! Handling the alphabet with care from the desk of

Jackie

PS. The series SCHC 366Q will begin this afternoon.