I was watching a TED video (again) and I don't even want to talk about the content of exploring Saturn's moons... partially because I couldn't get through it without being extremely irked by a simple lack of the pronunciation of the letter H in the beginnings of words that start with H-U-etc.... I'm not from Long Island but I find certain speech patterns here annoying... just different cultures I guess, but it must be interesting in how they started (unfortunately, we may never find that out).
So. As I watched the presentation I noticed this woman, Carolyn Porco, kept pronouncing the word "human" without an "h" sound... so it sounds like "uman" (long "u" sound). I immediately looked up where she was from... born in NYC, went to school on Long Island. I knew it. I have several teachers who don't pronounce the letter "h" when the word begins with "H-U-." WHY?!?!?! The design of speech patterns may be fascinating but when it completely neglects a letter AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORD... I just want to slap something. seriously. I understand its how you grew up, but its just so frustrating.
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