not to want my children being taught to say 'haitch'?

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It really annoys me. Now my 4yo DS won't believe me when I say it should be 'aitch' because his teacher says 'haitch' and so does everyone else (perhaps not altogether surprising if that's what they're being taught).

Go on, tell me I'm being a snob.

Those who say 'haitch' do you say N haitch S? I don't think I've ever heard it said that way. Just wondered .

My kids say it too and it grates. Dh is Irish and I fell in love with his accent, so I've only myself to blame :)

DH says London with the 'Lon' bit rhyming with 'gone'. Makes my teeth itch every time. It's his pretentious mother coming out in him.

Yanbu aitch is correct

Yadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddnbu

I cant bloody bear it

@Maryz She does sleep sometimes, you know

if i try to say aitch in a not so pronounced accent i sound liverpudlian.

*the baby is looking at me all weirdy

Trying to work out how to say yoghurt to rhyme with snog I'm from Northern Ireland and whether you say "haitch" or "aitch" depends on what side of the community you're from. Catholics say "haitch", Protestants say "aitch" - bizarre! I say "haitch" because that's what I've been taught, taught in Catholic schools by predominantly Catholic teachers, so I guess it's just what I've grown up using. To me it kind of makes more sense because words beginning with the letter H have a huh sound.

aye im from a small village in wexford.sure we didnt the electric til 1994.

*have the electric

im walking around talking to myself.no change there then.

hello its yog-urt (yog rhymes with snog)

we havent got onto the letters yet still doing sounds so aitch or haitch is not an issue. but DD walking around saying Hhhhhhhhhhhhh while breathing on her hands as if to keep them worm is apparently correct... so there.

we have weird accents from drinking bog water

*Warm not worm

Argh. It is awful, awful awful.

My brother and I constantly bicker over the fact I apparently say fir ty not TH irty.

Can't se the difference meself.

apocolypse maybe its the fact that it dosent begin with 'f'.

H'aich is wrong. Aitch is right. Teacher needs a good talking to. DS needs to understand MUMMY is The Law not the teacher - though, how you achieve that I don't know as it's the way it has been since the beginning of time

People who say 'haitch' don't say 'lell' or 'memm' for L or M. Why not?

There was something on the local news the other night about a school in Basildon where they are having elocution lessons. Apparently learning standard pronunciation, instead of the Essex accent, helps with spelling - a little girl said she used to write 'fink' but now remembers to spell it 'think' and a boy said he used to say 'wew' (I don't know how to write it in a Basildon accent...) but now knows to spell it 'well'.

Seems odd to me, I grew up in Yorkshire and as far as I recall, no-one had a problem spelling words as they are written, not how they were said locally. We could all write 'Are you all right' instead of 'Isda rate'.

YANBU I said it for a while to piss my snobby Mum off but it really is awful so I couldnt keep it up!

"I have a theory that it might be religious based in Ireland."

It is in the North anyway.

I can see why people want their children to learn what is standard where they are, but calling another standard use "ignorant" is the height of ignorance.

Don't you know how languages work?

I guess when you live somewhere that haitch/aitch is a sectairian issue, it's pretty hard to take people insisting that one is "right" and people who don't agree are thick or ignorant.

I'm sure that's the kind of thing that Protestant children were (and probably still are) taught here about the way their Catholic neighbours speak.

It's very ugly.