Harassing aitches and the heir of the herbs (RoPeCast #046)
Channel: RoPeCast
Date: 2016-02-18

“In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.” – Why did poor Eliza Doolittle struggle so much with this simple sentence? This episode deals with just one letter: An “H” can be quite a hassle, as you will learn.

Quite a long article for something as simple as a letter of the alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H

An interesting article with listening examples, one of them illustrating the phenomenon "h-dropping": http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/regional-voices/social-variation/

This podcast about American English pronunciation focuses on our letter of the day in its 28th episode, too: http://www.pronuncian.com/materials/podcasts/Episode_28.aspx

A funny article on the controversy about how to pronounce nothing but the name of the letter correctly: https://suite.io/michelle-strozykowski/45rk2rk

Originally published 1st Dec 2010

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