I know I am but...

[Modestandatinybitsexy]

DH is great. Amongst other things he puts the kids to bed every night. Even the nights he would like to take it easy - DS pretty much insists on it!

But I just cannot stand:

On Monday he ET through one apple
On Tuesday he ET through...

I've jokingly mentioned I would pronounce it AYT and honestly it's nothing in the scheme of things but my god does it set my teeth on edge!

Hm. I've just realised my accent has changed. I definitely used to say AYT (like my mother) but now I'd say ET (I've lived in Derbyshire for 22 years). I wonder when I swapped?

I thought "et" was afm accepted past tense? Not sure how it's spelled.

Ate is past tense though.

Et in this house too. North Mancunian.

Et here in South Wales!

Learn to accept it. My DH never says his Hs. Also says et for are and a bunch of other things.

He's actually so bad at some words and names especially I wonder if it's some kind of learning disability like dyslexia.

It’s definitely ate in hungry caterpillar, it’s even spelt ate.

'et' is RP and thus 'correct' - dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/ate

I (Warwickshire) AYT. DP (Liverpool) ET.

I’ll be honest, I 100% sympathise but ayt/et is the least of my worries when compared to the utter hideousness of his problems with seen/saw. ‘Do you know what I seen today?’ and don’t even get me started on ‘give us it here’. The horror!

Oooh, never really thought about this but now you mention it I’ve realised I use them interchangeably. Wonder why? Irish family but spent most of life in SE England (Essex and Kent) but also spent many years living in various other countries so somehow I’ve ended up using both and not noticing til now. How odd.

Tbh I always thought ET was the lazy way to say it, then I heard the Queen say it.

Gerrit et! That's what DM would say when we moaned about the food.

We're from the same place! Most people say ate but a few more of the rural accents might say ET.

I know it's my issue as my DM is a pronunciation snob and would have drilled this kind of thing out of me, it's probably her voice shouting in my head and setting my nerves off.

@cheddargorgeous funny you mention dyslexia because DH is and doesn't hear the difference, definitely wouldn't be able to make the change reading it without huge effort.

If he’s a lovely DH generally I’d let this one go. DH is definitely dyslexic (undiagnosed) but I don’t know of any other dyslexics who have such trouble pronouncing words like he does.

I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas...

Sorry, had nursery rhymes on all day and this is all that I can think about now.

That annoys me, but not as much as our and are.

When I was little I saw a "homophones" display at school and was totally confused by the last one: hour/our/are. As far as I was concerned, hour and our sounded nothing like are.

My husband thinks I'm really weird because I think tongue rhymes with song