8th letter of the basic Latin alphabet
First of all I'm not confused about how this letter is pronounced. I've been taught it's the former pronunciation all along and none of the dictionaries recognise the latter. But I observed there has been an increasing surge of people, many YouTubers included, that adopted the /heɪtʃ/ pronunciation, which vexed me to no end. I even saw some teachers of English pronounced the letter like that, which is alarming to say the least.
So when I'm out and about my data on my phone regularily changes from LTE+ to "h+", but it never works. What is h+ anyway? And why am I paying for data if it's just not going to work?
Why do you pronounce the "h" in most words, like "helicopter", "here" and "however", but not in "honest" or "hour"? Is there a grammatical rule for this?