Silent, redundant H

Sostres:

-Maestro, ¿administración se escribe con hache?
-Sí- le respondió
-¿Por qué le ha dicho que sí?- le recriminó su secretario.
-Por curiosidad, por ver dónde la pone.

In Barcelona I know an entire family, almost all of them educated in the Catalan university system, who write “haber” instead of “a ver.” What do they think it means?

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