Timeline for Is it true that only unstressed words in a sentence, which have H at the beginning of the words, will be dropped in American English?
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| Feb 8, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | jdmc | @sumelic: Do you remember the character Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation? He never used contractions, such as he's or it's. That is the "formal" style of speech I'm describing. Data would've never said, for example, I believe 'e is correct; he would've aspirated the /h/ in he. | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 14:05 | comment | added | jdmc | @sumelic: When would a speaker of standard American English ever omit the /h/ from house? | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | herisson | In longer words like "human", "house" and so on, this is true, but for short unstressed words like "he", "his", "him", I wouldn't think formality would affect their pronunciation so much. | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 5:41 | history | answered | jdmc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |