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Here's a listener question. Hi grammar girl, I have a question.

It's about the letter H and how it gets pronounced. Sometimes people drop the letter H like when they say human, they say it human.

Sometimes they especially emphasize the letter H like the word what they would say as what.

What's up with that and what's the correct way to do it. Thanks for the question. Well I have

had this next segment from the conversation on my radar for a while and

decided to move it up because although it's about whether we should call the letter

H or H, it also talks about why people drop the H sound at the beginning of words.

It's written by Kate Burrage and Catherine McBride, who as you will be able to tell are from outside the United States.

Like Dr. Seuss's star-bellies sneeches and plain-bellies

sneezes, there are two types of creatures.

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