Lindsay Lohan’s Silent H

This week Lindsey Lohan joined Tik Tok.

That isn’t particularly newsworthy in itself, but nobody was prepared for what happened next. she dropped a genuine pronunciation bombshell:

That’s right. Lindsey Lohan doesn’t pronounce the /h/ in LOHAN /ˈləʊ.ən/.

Reaction ranged from despair:

Wait. Lindsey “LOWEN”?!?IVE BEEN SAYING IT WRONG MY WHOLE LIFE?!?

to paranoia:

LOWEN? LOUTNER? GRANDEE? Okay they gotta be messing with us at this point

to straightforward denial:

u pronounced ur name wrong

I really don’t want to spread calm

or anything like that, but silent < h > has been around for as long as H itself. And it’s pretty normal for it to be silent at the beginning of a weak syllable in connected speech:

Has he finished?

But what I find strange is that nobody seems to care about the silent < d > in Lindsey /ˈlɪnzi/!! I’m starting to think this could be a conspiracy –

honest!