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.

Hold on. You said JEE I say Jy/Ji

Sounds fine to say Haitch if you're Irish. It's a regional thing.

But it sounds really awful in a London accent though. Because it's just WRONG!!!

I say H 😂 also is it Zee or Zed?

It's zed, zee is very American.

Aitch sounds cockney. I always thought Haitch sounded more proper.

I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say ‘NHS’ with a haitch. Rolls off the tongue easier as an aitch surely? Could be wrong though.

The letter name is originally aitch. Haitch is a hypercorrection.

It’s aitch in England. The examples you gave are bonkers though and don’t really support your argument! W starts with a D and the W is pronounced at the end, like the H in aitcH.

We have this battle in my family. DD1 aitch posh, Anglican
DD2 haitch tattooed and trendy, cultural Catholic
DS will say whatever will wind up whichever sister needs a prod.

The Italians call It "acca" (pronounced ak-ka). The Latin was accha, hence our name, aitch.
Catullus 84 is actually a Latin joke about this very phenomenon. Even the ancient Romans affected being more worldly and "Greek" by hyperusing the letter "h"!!
I'm sure aitch is a victim of this hyperuse!
Poem in English: rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e84.htm

The one that gets me is when people say GBHaitch or ABHaitch for causing a person injury. That’s just really wrong! (Obviously so is assaulting people!)

I'm really confusing myself now. I sing haitch in ABC song,

But I say N Aitch S.

And now I've said both versions too many times trying to figure it out and neither sound right. 😕

Apologies, hypercorrection, not hyperuse!

Is it not meant to be Haitch!??? I always thought it was!?

Who cares, both are ok

I say haitch. I'm Devonian though, so could be a regional thing?

I don't say haitch.

Haycha

@Chloemol

Who cares, both are ok

Apart from Haitch of course.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/haitch-block-breakout-frank-mcnally-on-the-relentless-rise-of-the-irish-h-1.4180973

Very witty article on this very subject if you have five minutes to kill!

I say aitch, but I have a thick Manc accent and I don’t pronounce H as a general rule so...

I’ve thought about it too much now and think I do both?! N - aitch - S, GB-aitch but would spell hat haitch-at.

Catholic NW background!

It's definitely aitch.

Aitch is one of only two 5-letter words in the English language from which you can remove 4 of the letters and they are still pronounced exactly the same.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

It's definitely aitch.

Aitch is one of only two 5-letter words in the English language from which you can remove 4 of the letters and they are still pronounced exactly the same.

I know the other one.

Careful - you'll have people lining up to ask you to tell them