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Why do New Yorkers drop the h at the front of the word? Well the answer seems to be that it takes less energy to say yooge than huge. Consider another H that most of us have dropped
— the H one in what, where and when. Back before the 18th century, it was considered uneducated speech to say what instead of hwhat. Maybe in the future all English-speaking yoomans
Listen to native speakers pronounce “hwhat” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.