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Exaggerating the pronunciation is often used in a sarcastic way. I cannot even think of an example where anyone pronounces the H first except for Stewie in Family Guy that one time, and that's American. I'm not convinced you aren't imagining or inventing this concept, to be honest. It sounds simply absurd to pronounce any of those words the way they're represented. Perhaps you should provide a voice clip to make sure we're not missing something here.