"Ch" has been used in the Polish language to represent the "soft h" as it is pronounced in the Polish word chleb "bread", and the "h" to represent "hard h", where it is distinct, as it is pronounced in the Polish word hak "hook". Between World War I and World War II, the Polish intelligentsia used to exaggerate the "hardness" of the hard Polish h to aid themselves in proper spelling. In most present-day Polish dialects, however, "ch" and "h" are uniformly collapsed as .