What has Mumsnet taught you you've been doing wrong all of your adult life without realising?!

No, it's not. Aitch is non-standard where I am and will be corrected in schools and by parents.
It's the opposite elsewhere I know.
Vive la difference!

Haha I forgot all about this great debate 🤣it's always been haitch to me too I mean the letter is literally h (huh) after all. I've only ever seen people argue other wise on this website to not pronounce the huh would just sound chavvy to me (sorry I know Mumsnet hates that word)

It is

I'm from South London, and aitch is what I know, but where I live now (South Yorkshire) people say haitch. DD was very confused at primary school when her teacher said haitch and I said aitch

Not where I live it isn't.

Haitch is the standard here.

I accept it's aitch lots of other places.
I'm not sure why you can't do the same.

I agree.

I am eternally grateful that Mumsnet did not exist when I had a baby. We got along fine.

However I do enjoy Mumsnet in recent years, there are interesting topics and a good mix of posters. I've found out a few legal things that I didn't know before; they don't affect me but, who knows, they might.

There's nothing I can think of off hand that has influenced what I do or don't do but I don't bother reading about cleaning and laundry, things like that.

Nothing, because I would never rely on a site full of strangers to tell me I was doing something "wrong". There is rarely consensus, and when there is I frequently find myself thinking "What?!!!"

/law, basic morality etc excepted, naturally

Why would she be a contortionist?

Sitting is the standard way to do it.

are you a contortionist ??

The word for the letter H is aitch.

So am I.

Only degrees from a select few universities are worthwhile ... unless it's Medicine in which case all universities are equal. If you can't do PPE at Oxford, NatSci at Cambridge or possibly Law at LSE, you are better off doing an indeterminate apprenticeship. Because those are the only 2 choices.

As someone whose first degree was from a Polytechnic ( an actual Polytechnic rather than a "shitty former poly" as the post-92 universities are called with an almost audible sneer) I do wonder how I've managed to have a professional career and retain some self respect.

Reading about the husbands on here has put me off marriage for life..what the hell ladies?!

I'm uncultured because I don't have acres and acres of bookcases in my living room. I read a lot - on my kindle.

I do have bookcases, but only have two in the living room, and four in other parts of the house.

I agree with your comment, @updownorthrough These things take actual time and someone has to do them!

I work full-time in a very busy job and have two school-age children who do a variety of activities. Just this week I have had a lot of ‘life admin’ to do in terms of orthodontists, booking parents’ evenings, arranging lifts to rehearsals with other parents, dropping at sports fixtures, booking a birthday party and organising invites, re-scheduling music lessons and paying deposits for school trips. None of it rocket-science but all, when taken together, quite time-consuming. Having to be the person to remember and juggle all this stuff is a type of chore. I don’t like it when other women dismiss what is often women’s default responsibility as nothing. It would certainly be a problem if it didn’t get done.

I see, thank you!
Love the term 'stunt cake' 😁

I think some northern English accents also use 'haitch'.

Interesting article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/haitch-or-aitch-pronunciation-letter-h-old-english-a8393766.html

Well, there's a mix of aitch and haitch in NI as you'd expect. Haitch is the usual form in ROI.

This isn't a rude comment to you so please don't take it this way- Im just curious. Did you also work full time whilst having more than one child?
If I didn't work whilst having children I would have found this a breeze - the direct debit thing isn't an issue, it goes out without me having to do anything but remembering to book appointment's and attend appointments, school events, world bloody book day outfits, having to send emails etc, get my prescription etc it's a little overwhelming at times. Then I forgot to attend a school play (yes my mistake and I feel awful) and I can just find the 'life admin' a bit too much on top of the load of life!

Yes, that still happens, then the cake is to be whisked off to be squashed into a napkin.
Sometimes the cake you sing happy birthday to is a only for the family of the birthday child and a lesser stunt cake is the one that comes in the party bag.

Up until recently I thought aitch was the only right way...

Apparently only if you're northern Irish. Which I only just discovered

'Supposably' isn't a word, though... 'haitch' is a correct variant.

Why do you hate it so much though?

It's the correct standard form where I live, ie the form taught in school. Small children are corrected if they say aitch. Just because someone says haitch doesn't mean they're wrong, they may just be from somewhere else.

I don't think people are intolerent scumbags but I do think they perhaps lack awareness that their way isn't the only right way.

poppyzbrite4 that's very often!!!! xx