To be irritated when people on television say "Haitch"?

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

This wretched woman just said "Haitch Emm Ess" (HMS) and it drives me NUTS!

[Twinklemegan]

At least we all know that Aitch talks proper!

[Dinosaur]

Yes. But only because that's how I pronounce it .

[princesscc]

Me Too!!! I always correct people when they say that! Well mostly children anyway.

[Blu]

DS says 'haitch'.
My granny used to say it too.
It's quite low on the scale of things to get irritated about, isn't it?
You'll have to change your posting name to VictorMeldrew!

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

It just sets my teeth on edge. I used to work for an investment bank - oh, why am I being coy, it was HSBC - and our desk assistant ALWAYS answered the phone "HAITCH SBC!"

[grrrrrrrr]

[littleducks]

I hate it, my mum drilled it into me that it was WRONG WRONG WRONG, but dh says it occassionally, normally to grate me and both his forename and surname are 'H's so its around a bit, I didnt know it was a 'dialect' thing til a previous mn thread

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

Blu, you are absolutely right . It's just a pet peeve.

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

Is it a dialect thing? Really?

[Beetrootccio]

I constantly correct my children for saying haitch not aitch

[nallydoolally]

can't stand 'haitch'. really really REALLY bugs me - ugh!

[NadineBaggott]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!

it's my pet hate soapylapin

[princesscc]

Looks like it not just you then, VPL!

[ChelseaDagger]

I cannot say AITCH. HAITCH makes sense to me even though I know it's wrong. Actually I didn't know it was wrong till I read it on MN.

[NadineBaggott]

and if your asked for your postcode and say 'aitch' and the dumbass operator repeats it back as 'haitch'

Blu - its high on my scale of irritants I'm afraid

[NadineBaggott]

you're

[chirpygirl]

Oh thank god I'm not alone, 'Haitch' winds me up so much, I have been known to correct people when I am particularly stressed out...

'Aitch' on the other hand is lovely...

[Blu]

re dialect:
It's very caribbean, and I think my granny said it as a sort of old fashioned Yorkshire backlash thing - to sound posh and not as if you were dropping your aitches!

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

But how would your granny say "Hull", Blu?!

[ChelseaDagger]

That's what it is Blu - well with me anyway. I have to remember to keep the 'aitch' at the beginning of a word, so I feel like I'm being lazy if I say aitch.

It doesn't make me a dumbass, just not a smartass

[percypig]

You're obviously not from Northern Ireland VPL!

Over here how you say 'h' used to be seen as a giveaway as to what religion you were. Hopefully people don't care as much about it now though. 'Haitch' is supposedly Catholic and 'Aitch' Protestant.

[twobabies]

I've been too embarrased to admit I didn't know there was a something wrong with haitch, I mean really?????

[Blu]

oh, 'hull', without a doubt. She would never have dropped an aithc - even ones she should have done, just like Chelseadagger.

A Jamaican colleague gave me a v vivid description of the irritating noise from his toilet cistern...'it was issing in my hear'.

A constantly hissing cistern, that would be irritating!

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

not for us, percypig!

I didn't mean to imply that it made the speaker stupid. It's just grrrrrr. Like "ax" instead of "ask" (but I think that is dialect too?)

[Clary]

My children say haitch, they've certainly not learned it from me. Grr

Must be a Derbys thing I think like stressing the second syllable of necklace (ie to sound like shoelace instead of shoeless). Grrrrr

[Blu]

Yes, 'aks' also very Caribbean / S London Caribbean.