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

[ViscountessPetitLapin]

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

I think it depends how far north you go - "reeeet good" is more Rotherham/Barnsley.

No, not unreasonable - it's my pet hate!

He also calls all females 'love' and doesnt notice if it offends people. He also tends to speak first, think second, actually probably without the thinking part. He isnt tight with money though

Has anyone else noticed how many people on Trisha et al say 'animalosity',
i.e ''well, I've got no animalosity towards him''
It cracks me up everytime.

I'm so glad that I'm not alone!

My other pet hate is that my child's teacher kept correcting him every time he said 'What?' - telling him that it should be 'Pardon?'

NO IT BLOODY SHOULDN'T!!!

I have had to laugh this week at all the silly fuss about Carole Middleton, but have been secretly wondering whether the teacher will have read it and realised that she is wrong.

Lots of different themes on this thread.

1. Wrong grammar that chidlren in my view should have corrected at school - you was; it's wrongly written when its is correct etc.

1. Accent - correct words but pronounced in a particular way - posh, common, scouse, estuary English, etc etc Wouldn't correct children at school but they need to know the way some people rightly or wrongly judge them on very strong regional accents in some jobs and some people actively change their accent for life or career enhancement purposes (there was a time you couldn't easily get a job at the BBC if you didn't have a regional accent so people were trying to adopt them and presumably a time the other way around.

1. Getting words completely wrong which I never really hear - like the animosity error.

Haitch either falls into 1 or 2 and I'm not sure which. I think I'd put it into (1).

I agree that regional accents should be treasured, but that pupils should also be able to be aware of & use 'Received Pronunciation'. Even the Queen has moved from cut glass upper crust towards received pronunciation over the years.

We've just returned from a week in the North Pennines and it was great to hear the north eastern accents. dh has lost his after living in the south for 20+ years.