Futurama supercollider joke

Description:I 'ardly know 'er", with apostrophes in place of the two initial h letters. This is a cultural mistake, a rare thing from Randall Monroe, who is usually pitch perfect. Randall's use of apostrophes suggests that instances of this old joke must belong to one of the English varieties that "drops aitches". But in fact, many most? For me, and I think for most Americans, an initial [h] in the object pronoun of "I hardly know her" or "I hardly know him" would sound rather fussy and over-articulated.

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