The Hirony of the 'H' factor

Good evening, my fellow country-people. A very good evening to all my Yoruba brothers and sisters out there, especially the ones who ate hegg this morning, the ones who came back from Hamerica last week, the ones who haven’t left their ‘ouses all day,  and the ones who read this blog for their hentatainment. Shorrout to all of you. 

You know, we give the Yoruba people a lot of grief for their 'h' factor. Why do they make the H silent when it should be pronounced and who sent them to sound it just before words that begin with vowels? Why can't they just switch it up? Why evils? 

And in the midst of our constant derision and bashing, we don’t realize that we are just as guilty - we meaning 90% of Nigerians. Every time we lambast someone for their 'h' factor deficiencies, we do so with an 'h' factor ourselves. 

I’ll explain. In the biggest irony of the century, we pronounce the letter 'h' with an 'h' factor. This is because the 'h' sound is actually silent in the enunciation of the letter “h”. Yes, oyibo people are weird but that’s not the point. 

Click on the speaker below to hear how the word is pronounced and then compare it to it the way you pronounce it. 

This means that everytime you said a “'h' factor”, you were wrong because the correct thing should have been “an 'h' factor”. This means that the word hippopotamus begins with an “H” and not a “H”

So shourrout to the hegg, Hamerica and hentertainment people and a big shourrout to you too!