• transcription delimiters. H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h]. The phenomenon is common...
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    prefix h, meaning 100 times. H with diacritics: Ĥ ĥ Ȟ ȟ Ħ ħ ꞕ Ꜧ ꜧ IPA-specific symbols related to H: ʜ ɦ ʰ ʱ ɥ ɧ Superscript...
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  • Look up dropping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dropping is a gerundive of drop. It might refer to: Copula dropping G dropping H-dropping Initial...
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    standard among American English speakers as well as those from regions where h-dropping occurs. In Canadian English, both pronunciations are common. In botany...
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  • initial /h/ in Middle English. Reduction of /hj/ to /j/ in a few American and Irish dialects (so that hew is pronounced like yew). Yod-dropping – the elision...
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  • American English. G-dropping is a linguistic phenomenon that has been studied by sociolinguists since the 1950s. The origin of G-dropping has been studied...
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  • soup. Yod-dropping is the elision of the /j/ from certain syllable-initial clusters of the type described above. Particular cases of yod-dropping may affect...
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    Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨h⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h. However, [h] has been described as a voiceless vowel because...
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  • Received Pronunciation (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    cot–caught mergers. RP does not have yod-dropping after /n/, /t/, /d/, /z/ and /θ/, but most speakers of RP have yod-dropping after /s/ and /l/. Hence, for example...
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  • the regular outcome of the lengthening, which shortened to [ɜː] after r-dropping occurred in the 18th century. The lengthening involved "mid and open short...
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    stopcock which allows the flow to be controlled. Dropping funnels are useful for adding reagents slowly, i.e. drop-wise. This is desirable when the quick addition...
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  • south of England, uses the short [a] in BATH. Many varieties undergo h-dropping, making harm and arm homophones. This is a feature of working-class accents...
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    Scouse (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    starting point ([ɑɪ]). The MOUTH vowel /aʊ/ is [aʊ], close to the RP norm. H-dropping, as in many other varieties of Northern England English. This renders...
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  • split, further changes to English phonology included: Non-rhotic (/ɹ/-dropping) accents develop in the English of England, Australasia, and South Africa...
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  • of initial /h/ in a word. Dialects that have lost /h/ are called psilotic. The linguistic phenomenon is comparable to that of h-dropping in dialects of...
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  • American English (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    Yod-dropping: Dropping of /j/ after a consonant is much more extensive than in most of England. In most North American accents, /j/ is "dropped" or "deleted"...
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  • risk of dropping out. Although since 1990 dropout rates have gone down from 20% to a low of 9% in 2010, the rate does not seem to be dropping since this...
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    counties all around London in the 21st century, include: Not as much h-dropping as Cockney, but still more than RP Increased amount of th-fronting, like...
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  • deh for "them" with Central Americans. Consonant changes occur like h-dropping or th-stopping are common. Some might be "sing-songish"[clarification...
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    Antonio Herrera Pérez (born 23 April 2001), known professionally as Junior H, is a Mexican singer-songwriter. He is considered a major artist of the corridos...
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  • hierarchy viewed as authoritative. For instance, the "misuse" of aspiration (H-dropping, such as pronouncing "have" as "'ave") has been considered a mark of the...
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  • mirrors other North Eastern dialects and contrasts with Yorkshire English. H-dropping is common in informal speech. This is considered unusual among most North...
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  • (such as gogga /ˈxɒxə/ 'insect'). This sound may not be a phoneme in H-dropping dialects. This phoneme is conventionally transcribed with the basic Latin...
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  • Dutch phonology (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    /ɣ/ is realized as [ɦ] and /x/ is realized as [h] and is used in Zeeland and West Flanders, which are h-dropping areas, so that /ɦ/ does not merge with...
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  • beginning "wh" (e.g. whine). There is no H-dropping except in unstressed cases of him and her. Yod-dropping only occurs after l or s. Most Glasgow speech...
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  • small perturbation, h{\displaystyle h}. Then one is able to solve the Einstein field equations as a series in h{\displaystyle h}, dropping higher order terms...
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  • TH stopping Cluster reduction Avoidance of [ʃ], [ʒ], [f], [v] phonemes H dropping Semivowels Non-rhoticity among older speakers The following phrases are...
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    particularly in England (such as Cockney), silence many or all initial h sounds (h-dropping), and so employ an in situations where it would not be used in the...
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    century, a backer realisation is favoured, [ɑi]. Yod-dropping occurs after all consonants. Yod-dropping after alveolar consonants (/t, d, s, z, n, l/) is...
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    both being pronounced /hɪɹl/[citation needed]. H-dropping, wherein words that begin with the letter /h/ are pronounced without it, so that hair sounds...
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