However that may be, it is kept
alive only by the literate classes who are reminded constantly of
its existence by seeing it on paper.
Roughly speaking, I should say that in England he who bothers
about his hs is a fool, and he who ridicules a dropped h a snob.
As to the interpolated h, my experience as a London vestryman has
convinced me that it is often effective as a means of emphasis,
and that the London language would be poorer without it. The
objection to it is no more respectable than the objection of a
street boy to a black man or to a lady in knickerbockers.
I have made only the most perfunctory attempt to represent the
dialect of the missionary. There is no literary notation for the
grave music of good Scotch.
BLACKDOWN, August 1900
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