drop your aitches
"I admit he's a genius, but—he drops his aitches."
For they mostly dropped their aitches, and they always looked so warm.
She had a pleasant voice, this friend of Sylvia's, and she spoke English well, even if she did drop her aitches!
Though she spoke with a very bad accent and dropped her aitches, her English was quick and colloquial.
You said he drops his aitches.
Examples of aitch
aitch
Would you aspirate the
aitch in "have" (to mark the anapest) or not (to oil the elision)?
Aspirates and drops his aitches.
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Wikipedia
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Plurals of consonants end in "-s" ("bees, efs, ems") or, in the cases of "
aitch, ess", and "ex", in "-es" ("aitches, esses, exes").
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