Consonants /h/

Traditional Dialects in East Anglia did not have h-dropping. Norwich and Ipswich, however, have had h-dropping for many generations. Trudgill (1974) showed that in Norwich in 1968 levels of h-dropping correlated with social class and style, ranging from 0 percent for the Middle Middle Class (the highest social class group) in formal speech to 61 percent for Lower Working Class informants in casual speech. It is interesting that these levels are much lower than in other parts of the country, and that hypercorrect forms do not occur.