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the mute or the haspirated aitches
Ah! You mean the French sneeze. Yes. Excuse my honest equivocation to give in to the knitpicking not very often.
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From my station you are excused.
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the French sneeze. 
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the French sneeze. yeah Jackie we are all a bunch of comedians here lately which is good 
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the French sneeze. Late summer doldrums???
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Come on, cm'on. This is one of the most serious threads we've had in months. Read zmjezhd's signs! Enjoy!
de-moet aspiré is the freshly opened bottle of champaign.
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champagne? no matter how you spell it, I'll drink to that!
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It's always a bad sign when you have to explain a joke, but in french a distinction is made between two kinds of aitches: muet 'mute' and aspiré 'aspirated'. The former does not get involved in liaison, e.g., l'heure, but the latter impedes it, e.g., le haricot (which is pronounced with a glottal stop between the vowel of le and the vowel beginning the next word). Also, I've always loved that the word for the letter h in English does not begin with an h or in fact have the sound /h/ anywhere within it. The aitch that does occur at the end of the word is not really /h/. I spent a lovely day in Champagne and even went champagne tasting there. In other parts of France, sparkling wine goes by the name blanquette or crémant. Here in the states, those are often cheaper than French champagne.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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hah yeah good bubbly can cost a lot! It is much cheaper to buy in crates though... 
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It all is very sound the things you say, but there are some English words starting with an h that have a bit of moetness in them as well 'humor, huge,...human and maybe more. For me rather difficult to pronounce.
(unless you pronounce it like j in juwel and judge, don't think so)
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