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Topic: H dropping

	Re: Herbivore, etc.
		In American English it is considered proper to drop the 'H' from the front of the word.
		in spanish, h's are silent, and the english 'h' sound is denoted by a 'j'.
		Here in the Midwest, dropped h's tend to signify that one is not a "local," and of course an expert, by definition, is someone who lives over 100 miles away.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/12/messages/823.html (598 words)

	Encyclopedia: H-dropping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Interestingly, both French and Spanish acquired new initial [h] in medieval times, but these were later lost in both languages in a "second round" of h-dropping.
		Because the /h/ of unstressed have is usually dropped, the word is usually pronounced /əv/ in phrases like should have, would have, and could have.
		Phonology The h-cluster reductions are various consonant clusters beginning with /h/ that have in the occurred in the history of English that have lost the /h/ in certain dialects.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/H_dropping (779 words)

	H-dropping -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Interestingly, both (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French and (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish acquired new initial [h] in medieval times, but these were later lost in both languages in a "second round" of h-dropping.
		Because the of unstressed have is usually dropped, the word is usually pronounced in phrases like should have, would have, and could have.
		As a result, the contractions should've, would've, and could've are often (additional info and facts about misspelled) misspelled as should of, could of, and would of.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/h/h-dropping.htm (354 words)

	JAG TV Episode Summaries & Spoilers - Most complete synopsis of stories.
		H asked her questions that "accidentally" revealed that even though she lost her son she blamed the US for "not helping or even fighting back" and condemned the trial of the sailor who reportedly shot her son.
		H and M needed "two witnesses" in order to recommend medal but men lied because they didn't like him and thought he had broken seal code of not leaving man. He wouldn't give his side being resentful that his father committed suicide in brig after wrongfully convicted of stealing but never got bitter.
		H got Ross to finally admit that he needed to keep them quiet because Sullivan was fl mailing him over sleeping with a woman while he was underway.
	home.att.net /~rrjmd4/jsThree.html (4770 words)

	B. Fliss
		Perhaps one of the most documented examples of this process lies in the fluctuating appearance and disappearance of the letter ‘h’ over the last 1500 years.
		Consequently, the upper class and academic elite recuperate /h/ use as an attempt to once again separate the classes through linguistic variation.
		Another example whose history closely parallels that of /h/-loss is a phenomenon called ‘final-stop deletion,’ where final /b/ or /g/ proceeding homorganic nasals are dropped in pronunciation, as in the words ‘lamb’ or ‘sing,’ yet this is considered a ‘proper’ pronunciation by contemporary standards.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362Flis1.htm (1779 words)

	dropping - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		plummeting, dipping, dropping, tumbling, reducing, falling, sinking, downward, low-cut, revealing, décolleté, low
		It involves skating in a structure called a half pipe, which is shaped...
		H, eighth letter of the English and Latin alphabets.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=dropping (214 words)

	The Zone - The Wild Bunch by Ted Seay
		While H is the most likely recipient of a quick dump pass, any of the four receivers running their landmarks or the Fullback running his Check Flare can get the ball right now.
		H turns his pattern into an In or Out (away from the man covering him) at +10, while Z runs a Wheel off X's backside, trying to rub his man off as he heads down the playside hashmarks.
		Although we generally only call Draw when defenses drop their EOL defender on the Spread side into coverage, we have run right by defenders who are so intent on rushing the passer that they miss the backside hand-off.
	www.sportscombine.com /thezone/Offense/WildBunch_TedSeay/WildBunch.htm (5206 words)

	Dennett, Darwin, and Skinner Crows by Frans Blommaert and Ruud Janssen
		Zach (1979) concluded that the average dropping height of 5.23 meters could be explained by assuming that crows minimized the total equivalent dropping height (that is, the average dropping height multiplied by the average number of drops needed to break the whelk) for 'large' whelks.
		Properties of Darwin crows (i.e., the properties that relate to the whelk dropping behavior of a crow) are somehow transferred from parents to offspring.
		The expected number of drops needed to break the selected whelk is a function of the whelk's weight and the dropping height.
	human-nature.com /ep/articles/ep03179207.html (8629 words)

	DMV: Adding, Dropping or Changing a Name on a Registration and Title
		When adding, dropping or changing a name on a vehicle that is currently registered, the owner will need to proceed to a local DMV Branch Office and present the following:
		The original certificate of title showing the change of name on the reverse side, signed by both owners, must be presented to the DMV (if the title is currently held by a lien holder, the title must be released for "transfer purposes only").
		If the purpose of dropping a name is due to a divorce and the vehicle is registered with the conjunction "and" or "and/or", you must submit a certified copy of the divorce decree, which specifically states you were awarded the vehicle.
	www.ct.gov /dmv/cwp/view.asp?a=810&Q=245046&dmvPNavCtr=\| (682 words)

	Language Log: A shibboleth of gentility: [h] from William Shakespeare to Henry Higgins
		Initial (h), which was preserved through First and Second MnE, began to be dropped at the end of the last century, but has now been restored in Standard E. by the combined influence of the spelling and of the speakers of Scotch and Irish E., where it has always been preserved.
		to whom [h] or no [h] is significant, fails to notice the words that agree with his own rule, but is struck with the instances of disagreement, deducing from them the impression of a systematic perversion ("Am an' heggs").
		From the 15th century on we can witness a general tendency for initital h to be dropped in fully stressed words of Germanic origin, and conversely, for an inorganic h to be added to such words beginning with a vowel...
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000514.html (1084 words)

	With the upraising of print culture, things had to begin to be standardized—spelling and grammar, but for a long time ...
		The dropped /h/ was the most condemned shibboleth of the nineteenth century (Mugglestone 52), and those with any social ambitions took great pains to eliminate it from their speech.
		For the average nineteenth century citizen who had nothing to guide him but his own native speech patterns, the resulting confusion about the proper use of /h/ led to what Beal refers to as ‘hypercorrection,’ or the over-use of /h/, “introduced to avoid the greater stigma of h-dropping” (160).
		Although /h/ dropping and insertion were considered, as one critic describes in 1842, “the most Cockney of errors” (Bailey 129), it was, not surprisingly, found in all areas of English society.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362-bohnert.htm (1668 words)

	An In-Depth Look at 4-H Enrollment and Retention
		Soon after the West Virginia study, agents in southeast Kansas found in their research that 40-50% of members were dropping after their first year, and an additional 20% dropped after the second year.
		By conducting phone interviews with older youth (10-18 years of age) who had dropped out of 4-H, the researchers were able to isolate the single most frequent reason given for dropping 4-H: displeasure with 4-H clubs.
		There was a small drop in the second year of membership for all groups except age group 18.
	www.joe.org /joe/2005october/rb4.shtml (2507 words)

	Why was the .h dropped in std headers?
		You'd have to ask the standards committee members to be sure, but I suspect at least part of the reason is to reduce the possiblity of conflicts with the inherited C headers (e.g and , each of which declares completely different things.)
		Because there was a de facto standard that most programmers were using and the names of headers was part of it.
		C++98 took these well-known names, modified them a bit and tried to make their content (if only the names used, such as cout and cin) as similar as possible to what people were used to.
	www.codecomments.com /message353677.html (744 words)

	The Official Website of Kevin Nash; Bad Blood 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Triple H is fought back, and Kevin Nash picks up the lumber and swings the tangled barbed wire, connecting with the forehead of The Game, causing his blood to spilt in the Cell.
		Triple H drops Mick Foley to the mat with a hard right hand, then grabs the ring steps which Nash brought into play and holds them over his head as he walks over to Nash's fallen body.
		Nash drops the steps and goes to help Foley up and back into the ring, but Triple H attacks from behind and shoves Kevin Nash forward into Mick Foley, and with that added force, Mick is thrown from the Apron, back of head first into the Cell wall before falling to the hard floor.
	www.kevinbigsexynash.com /badblood2003.html (1895 words)

	Lynch promotes anti-dropout efforts at alternative N.H. school - Boston.com
		Current law allows students to drop out at age 16 with their parents' permission.
		The program helps students at risk of dropping out of school get their diplomas.
		Keshia, 17, of Manchester, said she was at the point of dropping out of Central High School three years ago when she enrolled in the program.
	www.boston.com /news/education/k_12/articles/2007/01/05/lynch_promotes_anti_dropout_efforts_at_alternative_nh_school?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News (631 words)

	Illuminations: Whelk-Come to Mathematics
		Biologists have observed that northwestern crows consistently drop a type of mollusk called a whelk from a mean height of about 5 meters.
		The amount of work in dropping a whelk to break it open depends on the height of the drop and the number of times a whelk has to be dropped.
		The goal of this lesson is for students to find a good model for the relationship between the height of the drop (h) and the number of drops (n).
	illuminations.nctm.org /LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L482 (1103 words)

	Herb \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		However, in the 18th and especially 19th centuries in Britain /h/ became dropped in environments where it did normally exist in English, and especially the burgeoning middle class became conscious of the stigma attached with /h/ dropping.
		Since this applied to the vast majority of words with orthographical "h" people overapplied and the spelling pronunciation giving /h/ to "herb" was born (don't ask why it never caught on with "hour" or "honest"--perhaps they were more common in speech so the original form prevailed).
		This stigmatization of /h/ dropping never really occurred in North America because there haven't been dialects in NAE on a wide scale with /h/ dropping, so naturally people weren't conscious of a phenomenon that didn't exist, so the older British pronunciation of "herb" without /h/ has survived in North America, especially in the US.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t1040-0.htm (996 words)

	Appendix D. Using Welsh-English Dictionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If the word begins with an "h", check to see if dropping the "h" results in a word in the dictionary.
		Check to see if the word has one of the endings found in Section C.2; if so, your word has the form X.E, where E is the ending and X is what is left over after the ending has been removed.
		If the penult begins with an "h", try dropping the last syllable and either dropping the "h" or replacing the "h" with the consonant that immediately precedes it.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /fun/welsh/AppendixD.html (1167 words)

	Message Forum: Re: English vs. English
		The British seem to have a tendancy to leave the 'h' silent more than is done in American English, causing "an" to be used more often in front of a word starting with that letter.
		Dropping the /h/ at the beginning of words is a common feature in most parts of England and Wales -- so speakers who omit pronounication of the /h/ at the beginning of "'istory" would only find it natural to say "an historical".
		When it comes to writing the phrase formally, however, they seem to be aware that the "standard" upper-class pronounciation is with the /h/ intact.
	rinkworks.com /rinkforum/view.cgi?post=23822 (318 words)

	Using the prevowel indefinite article 'an' in from of 'h' words. \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The predominant pronunciation of "historical" is with /h/ today, so it seems strange to most modern speakers to use "an" before it, but it remains on in some instances (possibly more often in the written language, tho it's still somewhat rare) as a relic.
		However, I still seem to preserve such /h/s when words starting with such are following a word with a vowel, which would indicate that the /h/ phoneme is still there, unlike in classically /h/-dropping English dialects, which would indicate why I still use "a" rather than "an" in such cases.
		No, the purpose of using 'an' in front of some 'h' words appears to be simply to impart an air of erudition on the part of the speaker.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/7245.htm (1139 words)

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		The acceleration of gravity may then be determined to better than one part per thousand.","A","","","","","","",".13 dropping balls","4","","","","" "AJP 55(4),324","accurate release mechanism","1C30.13","A new release mechanism with 10 ms accuracy.","A","","","","","","",".13 accurate release mechanism","4","","","","" "AJP 59(6),568","free fall timer - stopwatch mod.","1C30.14","Modify a commercial lap timer/stopwatch.
		Photocell output is displayed on a scope.","M","","","","","","",".21 dropping balls","7","","","","" "TPT 12(2),115","induction method","1C30.22","Drop a magnet through several equally spaced coils of wire.
		Difference in point of impact is noted.","M","","","","","","",".32 drop ball on turntable","7","","","","" "12-6.3","coriolis trajectory","1E30.33","A ball describing an arc is released first in a stationary coordination system and then in a rotating system.","M","","","","","","",".33 coriolis trajectory","7","","","","" "AJP 33(8),iii","coriolis water table","1E30.34","A flat board rotates in a horizontal plane with a flexible tube full of flowing water running lengthwise.
	www.wfu.edu /physics/pira/dcs/DCS_commatext_Sept_2004.csv (3183 words)

	At least 10 N.H. homes top $5 million, prices dropping on some - Boston.com
		The "chopped up" aspect of Lake Winnipesaukee means smaller lots, which has kept prices from rising about $12 million as they have in other states, he said.
		Meanwhile, the price of an average single-family home is dropping as the number of sales continues its downward trend.
		The average selling price has decreased 3 percent in the last month to $291,700, and has dropped 7 percent from what it was a year ago.
	www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/12/23/at_least_10_nh_homes_top_5_million_prices_dropping_on_some (438 words)

	Wrestling TV Series, Television Show and Wrestlers - WWE Raw Monday Nights - USA Network - RAW Recap for June 5
		All night, Triple H was adamant that he would not kiss the Chairman's ass.
		Somehow Triple H knew this was happening, and as Shane turned away to call Mr.
		Triple H played it cool, even feigning passing out as he was set to kiss Mr.
	www.usanetwork.com /sports/wwe/theshow/news/news060506.html (1693 words)

	An Aussie in America - Herbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dropping the "h" rings in the ears of this Australian as backwardness, as a parody of the country yokel.
		I imagine there is some little fellow sitting in a tiny customs office whose sole job it is to restore all the "h's" to the American imports (and whose salary is drawn out of the Australian diplomatic budget unbeknownst to the Americans).
		I had heard the "h" being converted to a "y" as in yoo-man - as noted on my general pronunciation page.
	www.aussieinamerica.com /language/herbs.htm (1256 words)

	Tein S and H Tech Lowering Springs for 2003+ Dodge SRT-4, JSC Speed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		S TECH: They offer approximately a 1.5 inch drop for a more aggressive appearance.
		Spring length is guaranteed not to sag more than 5mm and to be clear of any manufacturing defects (see limited warranty for more details).
		H TECH:High Tech is made from a new material called "Vanadium" which is much lighter then other spring and increases flexibility.
	www.jscspeed.com /srt4/suspension/tein_springs.htm (114 words)

	Sketch of Lakhota, Pt.I
		The glides /w y h/ have more conditioned variants than any of the other consonant phonemes of Lakhota, This is probably due to the fact that their status as semivowels makes them highly sensitive to the vocalic environments in which they occur.
		Dropping of word-final vowels is particularly frequent when the following word begins with a vowel; note that such newly word-final /p/ and /t/ do not become /b/ or /l/.
		When glides are dropped from the sequences /aya/, /aye/, and /awa/ (/aN/ could appear instead of /a/ in any of these), the vowels usually further contract into a single long vowel.
	lakxotaiyapi.freecyberzone.com /sk1.htm (10028 words)

	Stanman's Wrestling AfterThoughts - Bad Blood Predictions and Triple H
		The only person that I see Triple H dropping the title to in the near future is Kevin Nash or Goldberg.
		Dropping it to Nash would be just like dropping it to Michaels again.
		That is assuming of course that Triple H doesn't get jealous of his son and hold him down.
	www.lordsofpain.net /news/2003/articles/1054951837.php (1110 words)

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		She said that it is a miracle that he can breathe on his own, but Hunter is finally listening to Steph, and he understands that his feud with Austin needed to end now.
		Triple H wanted Steph to publicly apologize to Austin and all the fans, even if they wouldn't believe her.
		She and Triple H have been exploring the miracle of life together and they are trying to have a baby!
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