{"id":2957,"date":"2011-09-19T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2957"},"modified":"2011-10-06T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:25:24","slug":"h-dropping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2957","title":{"rendered":":H-dropping:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term usually employed in the description of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=35\">accents<\/a> of English to denote the situation where <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>h<\/strong><\/span> is omitted from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1736\">lexical<\/a> items. Many accents of the British Isles drop <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>h<\/strong><\/span> and use pronunciations such as <em>head <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>ed<\/strong><\/span>, <em>hawk <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0254\u02d0k<\/strong><\/span>. The deletion of <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>h<\/strong><\/span> in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1542\">unstressed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1736\">grammatical<\/a> items such as <em>have<\/em>, <em>him<\/em>, <em>her<\/em>, which is common in nearly all accents of English, is not usually called h-dropping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term usually employed in the description of accents of English to denote the situation where h is omitted from lexical items. Many accents of the British Isles drop h and use pronunciations such as head ed, hawk \u0254\u02d0k. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2957\/revisions\/3777"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}