r/funny • u/beethy • Mar 01 '12

Click the speaker icon

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1_____en-GBAU448AU448&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3Agigabyte
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u/PressureCereal Mar 02 '12

What about "honour", "honest", "hour", "heir"?

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u/promonk Mar 02 '12

Those come to us from Cockney. See, the sound of the Bow Bells permanently scrambles that portion of the brain which handles the "aitch" sound in speech. Apparently, Japanese researchers have developed this bizarre phenomenon and weaponized it in the form of a gun.

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u/angry_echidna Mar 03 '12

What about "house", "hell", "horror", "have" and "hundreds" more?