My own accent is nowhere near as pronounced as I'd like, due to 'contamination' from outside influences I suppose. For instance, if I'm talking with some outsider foolish enough to ignore the blood-spattered and be-cobwebbed "turn back now!!!" signs placed around our borders, I occasionally catch myself trying to avoid the distinctive dropped 'H' of BCD* and thus have to bend my brain back to the idea.
Interestingly, the only known instance of a pronounced initial 'H' we have is in connection with just one innocent little word, in a way that would violate the rules of modern English grammar. Even then it's only used in one specific context and even that's fairly archaic now. The word is 'old', which BCD pronounces "hode" or "h'ode", in the sentence "the hode gentleman": referring, specifically, to The Devil, no less. I wonder what our fundie friends would make of that?
Interestingly, the only known instance of a pronounced initial 'H' we have is in connection with just one innocent little word, in a way that would violate the rules of modern English grammar. Even then it's only used in one specific context and even that's fairly archaic now. The word is 'old', which BCD pronounces "hode" or "h'ode", in the sentence "the hode gentleman": referring, specifically, to The Devil, no less. I wonder what our fundie friends would make of that?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
