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Updated: June 1, 2025
And, again, how curiously novel and charming seemed the soft and courteous English voices with or without aitches all about one in the streets and in the shops I had almost said the "stores."
She has inculcated the accents of Pentonville, with its aitches dropped and recovered again, among the high Japanese aristocracy. But first her husband died; and then the old Imperial Court of the Emperor Meiji passed away. So Baroness Miyazaki had to retire from the society of princesses.
Now, when the Prince of Wales invites him to dine at Marlborough 'ouse, 'e don't want to go there tacked on to a girl that carries aitches with her in a bag, and don't know which end of the spoon out of which to drink 'er soup." "It makes a difference, of course," agreed Minikin. "What we've got to do," said Jarman, "is to get 'im out of it. And upon my sivvy, blessed if I see 'ow to do it!"
The wind blew his hair on end, and he walked with his small wistful nose lifted to the invisible stars. "You see, I can't tell anyone at home about her. It's not as though she were even what people call a lady. She drops her aitches sometimes. But she's good, and she's pretty as a flower. I met her at a dance club. I'd never been to such a place before.
"I wouldn't. You said he drops his aitches. Weave," said Miss Palliser, "a circle round him thrice, and close your eyes with holy dread, but whatever you do, don't ask him to dinner." "Why not?" "Because ten to one it would make him most horribly uncomfortable. Not that that matters so much. But wouldn't the faithful Robert think it a little odd?"
Then, sadly, with lowered voices, they admitted that he had one flaw; when the poor fellow got excited, don't you know, he sometimes dropt no no, he skipped his aitches. It didn't happen often, but they felt it terrible that it should happen at all to him. They touched it tenderly; if it was not exactly part of his poetry it was part of his pathos. The shop was responsible for it.
The English-speaking Welsh often drop their aitches, as the English-speaking French do, though the Scotch and Irish never drop them, any more than the Americans, or the English of the second generation among us; but the extremely interesting and great little people of Wales are otherwise as unlike the English as their mother-language is.
I have known him drop his aitches for a whole evening because he was too dead beat to hang on to them. And Norah, going home with me, would say, "Poor Jimmy he does get it very badly when he's tired." And I have had to see Viola's face while these things were happening.
If there was one thing more than another that Lord Evenwood disliked, it was any interference with arrangements already made. "The man," he continued, "is not unsightly. The man is not conspicuously vulgar. The man does not eat peas with his knife. The man pronounces his aitches with meticulous care and accuracy. The man, moreover, is worth rather more than a quarter of a million pounds.
"Ami Fritz" bowed his head, but remained silent. "Yes," his wife went on, volubly, "that sad affair made Aix very unpleasant to us! After that we spent the winter in various pensions, and then, instead of going back to Aix, we came 'ere. So far, I am quite satisfied with Lacville." Though she spoke with a very bad accent and dropped her aitches, her English was quick and colloquial.
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