Latin
The Romans used ch to transliterate the sound of the Greek letter chi in words borrowed from that language. In classical times, Greeks pronounced this as an aspirated voiceless velar plosive . In post-classical Greek (Koine and Modern) this sound developed into a fricative.
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“OUR Latin books in motly row,
Invite us to our task—
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No higher skill we ask:
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