How do you pronounce the letter H?

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How do you pronounce the letter H? Like ‘ach’ or ‘hhach’?

I work in HR and my name begins with H so I have confidently been saying ‘ach’ my whole life, but all of my colleagues say ‘hhach’ so I am starting to doubt myself.

We are all largely from the same region.

It’s driving me a bit crazy!

I say Aitch, but I'm American and say all sorts of odd things.

Aitch! DS2 says Haitch and it really grates on me. I correct him but he insists he's right.

Aitch

But if your name is Hastings you wouldn't say Astings would you

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Nor if you were one would you be called a doubleyou-anker !

It's definitely not a class issue, it's a signifier of ethnic origin. Although I suppose as AppropriateAdult points out there are those who think that being of Irish origin automatically makes you working class.

I must tell my mum that some pompous random on the internet thinks her use of 'haitch' overrides her landed, intellectual, middle class upbringing

I say aitch apart from in HR when it’s Haitch. No clue why. Oh, and Haitch from Steps.

But besides that, I can’t believe nobody has picked up on the earlier poster saying the H in Hotel shouldn’t be pronounced. Wtf? Maybe if we were French, but since we’re mostly (I assume) not...

brie I think pps meant Aitch for Hotel? I’m Irish so haven't got a bloody clue 😂

When I say aitch to people at call centres (spelling out name) they always ask me to repeat myself but this never happens if I say it the other way round. I tend to say aitch but it sounds wrong.

Haven’t read it all but I work in a company with a name that is an acronym beginning with H (think HGV) and so many colleagues say “haitch”. It’s definitely on the rise. I can’t stand it.

I am Scottish and it was never Haitch in our house. My Dad read the news on the radio so he was good at talking proper. He used to tease my Mum for saying “j” to rhyme with “eye”.

I used to say haitch but was corrected by a nasty teacher who told me I was common, and I’ve said aitch ever since. It’s a regional accent thing I think, I’m from the East Midlands.

brie I've read. an hotel in books (and more than once) and at the time I thought wtf!? Surely it's a hotel, but now I'm wondering if there's people out there who do drop the H in hotel! Is it like herb?

AITCH

Don’t say haitch, it makes you sound stupid.

This has got me thinking so much but I'm pretty sure I say it haitch - I actually work in HR and used to work in the NHS and yes I do pronounce it En Haitch Ess!

I live in the north east and I can't say I've noticed anyone up here pronouncing it aitch. Ive only ever noticed cockneys and Essex types saying it that way and it doesn't sound right to my ears.

Surely it's a hotel, but now I'm wondering if there's people out there who do drop the H in hotel! Is it like herb

An hotel is corect,, do you say a hour? It's nothing to do with dropping the h, an ''otel would be common and wrong as well

Very few people actually say an hotel in normal conversation though

BossAssBitch - it has been explained, several times, that haitch is correct in Hiberno-English. You surely aren’t suggesting that Irish people sound stupid?

I say an hotel. That is definitely a dying "correct" thing, though.

Don’t say haitch, it makes you sound stupid.

Whereas casual racism is a mark of intelligence.

For me definitely aitch but it annoys me less and less the more I hear Haitch

It's Aitch!

(But sometimes when I am spelling things out on the phone, I say 'Haitch' so the person on the other end doesn't think I said A)

Don’t get me started.

It’s aitch. It’s in the dictionary.

Depends on the context. Mostly I would say aitch. But if I'm spelling out a number plate or postcode etc then I'll say haitch to distinguish it from 8.

Aitch
Ime the people who say Haitch are the same people who say Nothink, somethink

Ime the people who say Haitch are the same people who say Nothink, somethink

Have you just never met an Irish person?

Plenty as had many Irish nursing friends. None of them said haitch, nothink or somethink