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[elder cosmos]

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[latent prism]

Hockey has an h aspiré, so no ellision or liaison. A lot of words coming from English and other germanic languages are like this, la halle, for example.

[nocturne cobalt]

Aspiré meaning the h is pronounced?

[latent prism]

Nope, it's still not pronounced

It just doesn't elide or make liaisons like h muet does

[nocturne cobalt]

So if it comes from English don’t elide or make liaisons?

[latent prism]

Frequently that's the case. I don't know of any exceptions, but they could be out there

[nocturne cobalt]

C’est une regle tres etrange

[latent prism]

Get used to it; that's french

[nocturne cobalt]

C’est la vie!

[stable trail]

Germanic, yes: « havre, honte » are both Germanic loanwords (Frankish I think havre is from Old Norse while honte is from Frankish) and so don’t elide: « le havre, la honte »

[uneven marsh]

This is almost always because the h was historically pronounced, it just stopped being pronounced but eliding it would've been too big of a jump from the original pronunciation so it hasnt happened naturally (at least not yet)