So we’ve demonstrated that for an aluminum atom which has the atomic number of 13 and has a mass number of 27, there are 13 protons, 14 neutrons, and 13 electrons.

Explanation: Clearly, there are 10 electrons associated with a single Al3+ ion. We don’t need any chemistry to make this determination. The atomic number specifies the number of positively charged particles in the atomic nucleus.

13

Aluminum has (by definition) 13 protons, 13 positively charged particles. Because aluminum is neutral (as is all matter), it therefore has 13 negatively charged particles, electrons.

Initially, the aluminum atom had a charge of +13 + (−13) = 0; in other words, its charge was neutral due to the equal numbers of protons and electrons. Thus the remaining aluminum ion is said to have a net positive charge of 3, represented as +3 or 3+.

Origin of Zee, Zed According to The Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2nd edition), the word zed is derived from the French word for the same letter, zède, as well as from the Latin and Greek word for the letter zeta. There were many historic names for the letter Z, including zad, zard, ezed, ezod, izod, izzard and uzzard.

The accent can be found in the swath of the country that extends west from Washington, taking in Maryland; southern Pennsylvania; West Virginia; parts of Virginia; southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; most of Missouri; and Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, much of Kansas and west Texas.

This leads to the speakers of those variants pronouncing “whales” the same way as “Wales”, “which” the same way as “witch” and “what” the same way as “watt”. So there would be little point in spelling “what” as “hwat”.

In English, the other consonant (W) became prominent. The *K turned into a H, originally pronounced more like the Spanish J. The phenomenon called metathesis caused the sounds swap places over time and eventually drop the H from pronunciation, making WINE and WHINE homophones.

For most of us, that “h” is silent. But originally, the combination “wh” meant a w sound that was de-voiced, like a whisper (and still is in some dialects). Note that instead of “wh”, they wrote “hw”… but the sound was the same.

Think of someone pronouncing “LOL” as a one-syllable word rhyming with “mole” rather than saying each letter, knowing it isn’t correct but rather saying it incorrectly to be humorous. H before W is how all English speakers used to pronounce Wh words.

Because of the origin of “hour” and its Latin roots, the “h” is silent, in accordance with the original pronunciations. “House” has Germanic origins, so the ‘h’ is pronounced because the sound was present in earlier forms of the word.

In Britain, H owes its name to the Normans, who brought their letter “hache” with them in 1066. Almost two thousand years later we are still split, and pronouncing H two ways: “aitch”, which is posh and “right”; and “haitch”, which is not posh and thus “wrong”.

This “h”-dropping occurs in a specific environment—only in words that start with a “hyu.” If they drop it in huge, they also drop it in humor, humid, humiliation, humongous, and Hugh. Words that start with a consonant followed by “yu” have long been subject to the deletion of a sound.

New Yorkers typically do not allow /j/ to be preceded by /h/; this gives pronunciations like /ˈjumən/ and /judʒ/ for human and huge. Donald Trump has a classic New York accent, and his pronunciation of “huge” as “‘uge” or “yuge” is lampooned even among some New Yorkers.

In standard AE, the “h” in huge, human, etc. is always pronounced. Yes, it can sound much like the ich-Laut, or it can be softer, but these words are always aspirated.

H is silent in many English words, for various reasons. The words hour and honest come from French, and in these cases English took over the French pronunciation as well as the word. Not all such words that have come into English from French still have a silent h, however.