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

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ViscountessPetitLapin · 18/04/2007 22:59

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

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MrsWottinger · 18/04/2007 23:35

or it ain't technically suzy wong.

Blu · 18/04/2007 23:34

or even NQRS

Blu · 18/04/2007 23:34

I mean she could say it in NQRL.

Blu · 18/04/2007 23:34

She could say it Not Quite Rhyming Slang.
or
"its all a door, ain't it" (revolving / evolving"

MrsWottinger · 18/04/2007 23:32

oh, am Aitch btw. no h

MrsWottinger · 18/04/2007 23:32

i'm just waiting for NQC to come along and say 'it's all dialect, the language is evolving, nothing is wrong.' subtext: 'i'm canadian and i am making it my life's work to destroy the queen's english on MN. au revoir, mes amies.'

Blu · 18/04/2007 23:27

Clary - yes, my other granny (Derbyshire0 used to say 'neckLACE'.
And 'toytoise' and 'poy-it-ry'.

Blu · 18/04/2007 23:25

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

Clary · 18/04/2007 23:25

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

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ViscountessPetitLapin · 18/04/2007 23:22

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?)

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Blu · 18/04/2007 23:21

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!

twobabies · 18/04/2007 23:21

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

percypig · 18/04/2007 23:18

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.

ChelseaDagger · 18/04/2007 23:14

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

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ViscountessPetitLapin · 18/04/2007 23:12

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

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Blu · 18/04/2007 23:11

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!

chirpygirl · 18/04/2007 23:10

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...

NadineBaggott · 18/04/2007 23:09

you're

NadineBaggott · 18/04/2007 23:08

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

ChelseaDagger · 18/04/2007 23:08

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.

princesscc · 18/04/2007 23:07

Looks like it not just you then, VPL!

NadineBaggott · 18/04/2007 23:06

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!

it's my pet hate soapylapin

nallydoolally · 18/04/2007 23:06

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

Beetrootccio · 18/04/2007 23:05

I constantly correct my children for saying haitch not aitch

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ViscountessPetitLapin · 18/04/2007 23:05

Is it a dialect thing? Really?

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