How do you pronounce the letter H?

[inlawsimnotsure]

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!

Other words I pronounce in ways that make my family roll their eyes: turquoise (oi as in petit pois, not oil) Lidl (leedle) Chile, schadenfreude, Volkswagen, Citroën, questionnaire, lingerie, Chopard and Chopin, Thierry Mugler, and, of course, Porsche! Not forgetting Bayeux, as in tapestry, which is nothing to do with any bay on any map. Bah- yer (but don't sound the r).

It’s definitely AITCH

Wait, how are people mispronouncing questionnaire?

And of course it's aitch.

The voice on the answerphone at my GP surgery used to tell us to call N Haitch S Direct. I did try to correct them when I went in but the reception staff looked at me as though I was mad.

On another note, one of my patients used to tell me he’d seen the thysio. It took me a while to realise he meant the physio but thought he was saying it the posh way. 😂

Qurstionnaire? Wait! What? How is that said?

@zxcvhjkl Why are you pronouncing VHS as Bee-aitch-ess? V is pronounced as Vee

Properly! So Aitch

I'm a bit of a hybrid mix of my Irish and English parents. The letter alone I normally say haytch. But if I talk about he nhs it's always Enn-aitch-ess. I blame the parents

When I was sitting watch my child play.football the other week, another child was spelling out a word to their mum. The child said 'didn't and the mum told them it was wrong and should be haich! I was tempted to let her know she was wrong!

That should say the child said aitch!

Drives me mad.. it is aitch, We don't say feff or sess...
Teachers where I work say haitch, interviewers on TV and radio! The list is endless.
Grrrh

It’s haitch if you are Irish and Catholic. For everyone else it’s aitch, and you are likely to be viewed negatively if you say haitch.

Questionnaire is a French import, so Kestionnaire, with a rolled r at the end. But my family threatens to roll me in a blanket and stow me in the loft if I say it.

and you are likely to be viewed negatively if you say haitch.

Or simply viewed as a catholic.

It’s haitch if you are Irish and Catholic

I’m Irish and Protestant. Shame.

I’m Irish and Protestant. Shame.

Oh you little rebel, you. 😁

My name begins with H, and I say it’s Haitch! Aitch is fecking lazy!! And when people say my name they even leave the bloody H out! 😡

I mean some people leave the H out, not all...

I'm Irish (not Northern though) and say haitch.
The thing i always wonder about these threads is why so many Mumsnetters have so much cause to use the word aitch/haitch. I have no idea how most people I know say it.
I presume since I now live relatively close to where I grew up and went to school that they mostly pronounce it like I do but honestly I can't say I've ever noticed.

Siri says haitch for lowercase h, and capital haitch if you use a capital letter! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I’m northern but not Irish, and it’s still Haitch!

DD also says Haitch, the cat just looked at me weirdly! 😂😂

Many years ago when I was a teen going to mixed religion events in NI getting someone to say the alphabet was a way of finding out religion for some. This took me a while to catch on I was as ditzy then as now.

rubberduckyyouretheone 🤣 It took a while for the penny to drop with me too! It was usually “what school did you go to?” 😉