My post on Authors Electric this month concerns those pesky silent letters.
A recent Facebook thread was discussing the pronunciation of A in conjunction with an invisible H at some length. I suspect we have all come across that old chestnut of how to enunciate ‘bath’ (or ‘grass’, ‘class’, ‘pass’) and whether it/they should be pronounced with or without the unseen H as in ‘b-ah-th as opposed to b-a-th.
Though the originator of the Facebook post now lives in California he is a Brit by birth, and, his original question was to his US counterparts on how they heard those invisible H sounds.
Read the rest on the AE site Here
http://authorselectric.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/invisible-h-by-jan-edwards.html