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H-adding may be considered the opposite of H-dropping. It is the habit of adding an initial h to the beginning of an English word starting with a vowel. For example hearlier for earlier.
This may be merely a classist parody (commonly found in literature from late Victorian times to the early 20th century), claiming that some lower-class people affected the adding of h in the ludicrous belief that it would distinguish them from their h-dropping peers. A typical piece would run something like, "We 'asn't any 'addocks, ma'am, they ran hout hearlier".
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