To ask you how you say the letter 'H'???

[NowSissyThatWalk]

Okay.
So this may have been done to death, but I am a woman close to the edge.
I pronounce the letter H as 'Aitch', not
pronouncing any 'H' sound at the start.
I have always been told this is the 'right' way to pronounce it, and so it's stuck.
But I seem to never hear anyone ever saying it like this and instead pronounce the 'H', as 'Haitch'.
I can't take much more of it. My DP says 'Haitch' and corrects me every time I don't.
I should LTB shouldn't I????

Can we also put the word 'thing' which CLEARLY ends in a 'g' being pronounced 'think' to general discussion??! Drives me bonkers!

Elendon the Normans arrived over expecting a sort of Not tonight pal from the bouncers but when they arrived they got a stamp for a free drink at the bar. And sure the craic was mighty so they made it their local.

Haitchers gonna haitch

'Haitch' in books used to be a way of showing that a character was working class, while 'Aitch' was seen as the posh 'proper' way of pronouncing it. I would imagine that both are considered correct now.

A bit like Mrs Tiggywinkle's 'becoz' - I guess in Beatrix Potters' time posh people actually pronounced the 'cause' in 'because' as, well, 'cause'. Now it just looks weird because no one does.

Fay your version of events is far more entertaining than that ould Robert Kee's!

Love it Fay!

The Norweigan Vikings saw Dubh Linn (black water), Viking words assimulated to the Gaelic, as their Valhalla, and indeed recent archeological finds near Kilmainham seem to corroborate this. Also their are lots of Irish surnames directly linked to Norwegian. My patrilineal line has a direct lineage to Norman, and Danish.

Kee would be a bit too long winded for this thread .

Maud you might make some people all homocidal with that.

I say aitch though grew up saying haitch at school and home. I learned it was haitch whilst doing teacher training infact despite going through education to university level befirehand.

I teach 'aitch'

Can't say haitch particularly bothers me though.

When I was growing up, I was taught that if a British person said 'haitch' it was a sign of being uneducated and a bit thick

:( How awful. And yes, definitely snobbish and thinking oneself is better than others. It's nothing to do with education and far more to do with where in the country you come from!

Elendon I was watching Walking on Cars music video for Speeding cars and its a haunting throwback to Irish and Viking customs.
If you haven't seen it take a look but beware you will be singing the song for dsys.

I gee up
In Doncaster saying Haitch.
I live in Sheffield and most people appear to say Haitch.
I teach in Sheffield and teach Aitch

I asked my son's phonics teacher why he says "Haitch" (he was not an English speaker when he started learning phonics with her).
She said it is in their jolly phonics program, the children hold their palms in front of their mouths and when they say "Haitch" they feel the HUH sound on their palms.
They don't feel it if they say "Aitch".

I say Aitch.
50 yo Home counties woman, and I say the T in often, but not in soften.

There is no parallel with "could of" etc whatsoever.

I say haitch except for when its in the middle like NHS, then I say a aitch. I suppose I learnt it from my parents and my mum's a bloody linguist!

If they're learning phonics why are they saying "haitch"? They should just be learning the sounds at the moment, not letter names Exactly
/h/ is the letter sound aitch is the letter name

I think some of the explanations on here cast interesting light on why people continue to defend saying haitch even when they have had it explained to them that it's wrong.

Unlike most mispronunciations, which are simply mistakes, this one seems to be freighted with political meaning, because of some of the historical associations (e.g. with a similar Irish letter which really is correctly pronounced haysh or similar). So thanks for the historical info, that makes a certain amount of sense it's still wrong though.

In the case of the OP though I think it's a bit rich of your DP to correct you when you are the one getting right so yes you should LTB.

Aa, bee, see, dee, ee, eff, gee, haitch, Iy, jay, kay ell, em, en, oh, pee.

Cue, arr, ess, tee, you, vee, double u, axe, why, zee

I think some of the explanations on here cast interesting light on why people continue to defend saying haitch even when they have had it explained to them that it's wrong.

Yes, where would we Irish savages be without English people like you to civilise us?

Cromwell took everything but he will not take our now-anglicised-form-of-Haysch Haitch.
Braveheart 2 Rise of the Huh Aitch.

We'd be still in caves bate-ing each other with hurley sticks Maud .

Saying haitch is not wrong. Debbietheduck

You need to listen. And learn. But perhaps starting a sentence with a conjunction is going to send you over the edge?

Will we get Mel Gibson back for Rise of the Huh Haitch? He seems to have gone slightly off the boil. i.e madder than a farmer's wife at a Michael Guiney's sale.

Ah sure a cup a tae and a hang sangwidge and he'll be grand.