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"Haitch"

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#1 ·
It's "h" not hate-ch for pity sake.
 
#23 ·
I disagree with ate (as in hate) and ate (as in et). I was born eons ago and both were (are) acceptable and always have been.

The dreaded Haitch though really gets to me I truly hate - (haitch it). We don't, for example, say wubbleyou so just stop it. Yes I have worked out double "u" but my point still stands - don't necessarily use pronunciation as an excuse for description. Grrrr...............
 
#9 ·
I was allways taught that dropping your H's was a bad thing.

Some of the older folk around here are terrible for dropping the H on words such as Hat.
 
#13 ·
Come over to N Ireland....you can virtually tell whether someone is Protestant or Catholic by their pronunciation of the letter "H"...that's one of the rare things we have to fight about over here...or is that 'ere ?? ;)

But then again it's only when we say the letter "H"....when pronouncing words starting with it we never drop the "H".
 
#33 ·
It's ranting about the letter H being incorrectly pronounced as HAITCH !!
Not a matter of education, not a matter of right or wrong, just a different pronunciation.

Who is to say what is correct/incorrect, good/bad English pronunciation? Even that august body, the BBC, has realised that it can't force what it considered to be correct pronunciation, actually the English of the middle class in the so-called "home counties", on the rest of the world.
 
#35 · (Edited)
The language we speak today is a product of the mistakes, laziness, regional corruptions and poor education of the past. Otherwise we'd be speaking a cross between Latin and Sanskrit, or something earlier.

Doesn't stop us foaming at the mouth with rage when someone says 'Haitch' though. It's ugly and should be banned.

And did you know that the way dipthongs are pronounced in Dutch West Frisian is different from in Juhuri, the language of the Azebaijani mountain Jews? It's about time it was standardised.
 
#38 ·
I would say that 90% of the people here say Haitch.

Only the older folk seem to say Aitch.

Doesn't really bother me to be Onest.
 
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