Pet Hates

[Infomaniac]

Am I just a pedant? I simply detest it when people say "Haitch" instead of "Aitch". Nothing sounds more wrong than when the "Aitch" in NHS is pronounced as "Haitch". It is slike fingernails on a blackboard.

[jackthehat]

Yes there is.............but you don't SPELL the sound out using an H.

It is aitch...........NOT Haitch.

[jackthehat]

^......or put them in Chatterbank instead of the Reality TV section.........eh, Butch ? ;o)

[joeluke]

It's pronounced haitch where I come from and as I will never ever feel the need to ever use the word other than in pedantic threads like this who cares?

[Dagman]

By the way, did any of you see the episode of QI when it was shown that due to change, our language will not apply in a couple of hundred years? Not that it'll matter to mortals, in other words we'd struggle to understand people as they will be using an evolving dialect.

[Dagman]

Bednobs, shouldn't eight be pronounced eyt, not ate or aiyt? Another one is 'somethink'.
what's all that about then?

[sara3]

btw, joeluke.. I am a plum-gobbed toff :o)

aitch.

[joeluke]

I guessed you were sara

Didn't I once call you a posh bird and you agreed?

[sara3]

I don't know.. we don't usually agree on anything!

[joeluke]

That's cos I'm always right

[Infomaniac]

I see the discussion has come back to the pronunciation of the letter aitch. Those people who insist on pronouncing it as if it were spelt "haitch" remind me of the scene in My Fair Lady where Professor Higgins is trying to teach Eliza proper pronunciation, but she only aspirates the word that is not spelt with an aitch:

'"ln 'artford, 'ereford and 'ampshire
'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen.'"

Goodnight all - I 'ope to 'ave more hamicable hexchanges tomorrow. :0))

[Zeuhl]

joeluke

you're confusing two separate things

1. the sound aitch represents in certain words
2. how the word aitch itself is written and pronounced

aitch has never been pronounced or written as haitch in english except by the misinformed
.

[Infomaniac]

Yup. :o)

[stewey]

Let's open up another can of non-arthropod invertebrate animals: Is it "An hotel", or "A hotel"?:)

[carmalee]

an hotel - pronounced an 'otel

[askyourgran]

I think a lot of this is local dialect. I hate people who say drorring for drawing and heighth instead of height.

[canasta]

I don't think it's local dialect just sloppy speech

[NazNomad]

... seeing the same question over and over again because people can't/won't use the search bar.