The alphabet and 'H'.

[Thatbliddywoman]

So we say
Ay.
Bee
Sea
Dee
Ee
Eff
Jee
Aitch. Except we don't. We say 'Haitch'.
Why?
We make the aitch have its own letter as the sound of the word for it
We don't do that with any other letter. Why H?
We don't say 'wubbleyew' do we, It's 'doubleyew'?
I don't understand it.

I say aitch, what and loo
I am doomed

Adding the h was regional and class based, but like most things not as clear cut now. Living in London aitch was middle class haitch was working class

Phonetically though g is guh not Juh

I wasn’t taught to read using phonetics so it isn’t natural for me to say guh when I see G, my brain automatically says “G” as in the letter name. If we are naming letters according to phonetics I would say G should be called ghee not jee/gee.

English phonetics fry my head

"Pardon?" was brought in as a word to emulate upper class French by non upper class people.
"What?" is now used in a similar manner to separate upper class English from the rest of the country that uses "pardon".
"I'm sorry?" is the phrase for the people who want to distance themselves from this frankly ridiculous argument!
Such is life!

@Miscella

Fly - I’m afraid you are making yourself sound very ignorant.

English may be your language however mine is Hiberno-English, it is a distinct dialect and what is ‘correct’ in your version of English is not necessarily correct in mine.

It isn't ignorant to pronounce a word the way it is spelt. Rather stupid to think otherwise.

The question was about pronunciation of "aitch". Not pronunciation of haitch.

*so it isn’t natural for me to say guh when I see G, my brain automatically says “G” as in the letter name.
I'd say j-ee for G and guh for g

It isn't ignorant to pronounce a word the way it is spelt.

Stating this in relation to the English language is hilarious! or is it hillaireeus?

I'd say j-ee for G and guh for g

We’re talking about the letter name though. Do you have two different pronunciations for how to say the letter name?

The sort of folks who sneer at others for the way they hold their knife, or say Magdalen instead of Maaawdlin.

You need to get out more.

"It isn't ignorant to pronounce a word the way it is spelt. Rather stupid to think otherwise."

How do you pronounce pterodactyl then? Just wondering.

@Smallsteps88

I'd say j-ee for G and guh for g

We’re talking about the letter name though. Do you have two different pronunciations for how to say the letter name?

The letter name is j-ee phonetically, or how most people pronounce gee

Exactly! So gee is fine!

@eggandonion

Does anyone recall the 2019 Santa v Father Christmas discussion. I think it ended badly.

😂

You'd swear some folks have never travelled outside of England.

The question was about pronunciation of "aitch". Not pronunciation of haitch.

🙄🙄🙄

The question was about the pronunciation of the letter 'h'

You'd all have fits listening to people from some parts of Scotland pronouncing it 'ITCH'

@Smallsteps88

It isn't ignorant to pronounce a word the way it is spelt.

Stating this in relation to the English language is hilarious! or is it hillaireeus?

I admit my tongue was in my cheek.

Fair play.

No one said 'haitch' when I was growing up - 70s, south of England. Haitch seems to have crept in over the last 20 years (so far as I have noticed anyway). I absolutely cannot stand 'haitch' and I want to scream when people say 'Haitch R' at work 😡

Wow that’s an extreme reaction to something that is of absolutely no consequence.

I say ‘Huh’ Cos im welsh and we say letters properly and In A way that makes sense 😂

I absolutely cannot stand 'haitch' and I want to scream when people say 'Haitch R' at work

Gosh. What do you do when something serious happens?

Don't move to Ireland (and / or many other parts of the UK, it would seem) as you just won't be able to cope with all these 'haitches', pronounced perfectly correctly 🤨

You're right smallsteps - maybe I'm having a bad week 😂

I hope it gets better. Or at least I hope no-one “haitches” in your vicinity until you’re feeling better.

Imagine if a colleague from new Zealand was talking, all those kiwi vowels.

NHaitchS.... really grinds me down.....
It's aitch..... haitch goes with holding your knife like a pen 😀