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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 4:54 am
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary:

1. abbrev. of HONOURABLE, HONORABLE.
2. abbrev. of HONORARY a.
3. colloq. abbrev. of HONEY n. (sense 5).

The "H" in HON is definitely pronounced and the only one of the above three in which the "H" is not a silent H is #3.
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