H DROPPING

Este assunto é muito importante para a pronuncia da letra "h" para pessoas não nativas da língua Inglesa. Após a leitura assita o vídeo no youtube, link no final do texto. H-dropping is the complete absence of the sound [h] in the accent . The words hot, heart, happy, hammer begin with vowels. It is not merely variations in a few words, it is total absence across the vocabulary. So the following don't count as h-dropping, and in general the following variations are all regarded as normal, not stigmatized. Silent letter H in honour, honest, hour, heir . No-one ever says an [h] here. Silent letter H in American herb (the plant). This is just a regional difference. Silent letter H in human, humour . This is individual variation: some people say it, others don't. (With perhaps some regional variation too.*) Loss of H in unstressed grammatical particles he, him, his, her, has, had, have . Everyone...