"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.
Examplesofaitch
aitch
Would you aspirate theaitchin "have" (to mark the anapest) or not (to oil the elision)?
From theCambridge English Corpus
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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