JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has lost its outright majority for the first time in a devastating blow for the party once led by Nelson Mandela. The ANC has dominated South African politics since winning in the first post-apartheid elections 30 years ago.
The ANC was braced for a disappointing outcome, predicted by polls before Wednesday’s elections, but the final results are even more sobering. It won 40 percent of the vote, falling from 57% in 2019.
I’m not sure that the “h” is silent in Received Pronunciation, either. I know that some British dialects do use silent "h"s, but I though that that was…what, Cockney?
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Cockney and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Southern_England
So it sounds like Received Pronunciation, the wealthy crowd, does it the least, but that it’s there to some degree. I think that NPR would be doing it more if they were trying to adopt an accent used by poorer people in England, though, if anything.