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One of you asked me about the word "he".
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Did you know it's really common in conversational
English to reduce that word, we drop the h sound
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and it's just e. Now if we do that, we have to
link. Let's take the phrase "Was he there?"
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Was he becomes wuzy. Zyzyzy.
Linking the zy into the e vowel.
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I'll say it then you repeat.
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And when he meant by institutions
were really just formal rules.
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What he meant.
What he meant.
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The t in what becomes a flap linking the
words together and the h is gone.
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What he--
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If you keep your ear out for this reduction,
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you'll notice it more and more
dropping the h in the word "he".
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