Haitch in HSBC phone message

[ClaudiusTheGod]

Phone HSBC. A voice will thank you for calling Haitch S B C.

This is all kinds of wrong, isn’t it?

😂😂

I envisaged some strange tension-based contraption that people pressed things into for storage
I remember someone I worked with in London asking me if I knew the expression "it's in the press" because he had an Irish man doing some work in his house and didn't know what he was on about

Such a simple everyday sentence that means nothing to so many

(And yes, have seen give out cause confusion on here many many times.)

It was a deliberate choice of word😁

Many years ago, an American colleague who had recently arrived in Ireland was delighted to be told at his first parent teacher meeting that his daughter was very bold.

He was very quickly disabused of the notion that it was a compliment.

Don't forget the immersion and hot press😂

On more serious note, my Irish forename and surname gives my English colleagues hives. I've been implored on numerous occasions to anglicise it. My reply of would you ask any another nationality to anglicise their name quickly gives pause for thought

Your colleagues live on the baby names forum, don't they?

You should Irish up their names. Loads of silent consonants, fadas, the works.

Excellent idea. You could just pronounce them phonetically as gaeilge.

English is my second language, I was taught to use 'Haitch'...still do.

My French father would throw a fit if anyone said 'Aitch'..."You aren't cockneys, don't drop the H" he would yell. He hated most regional UK accents though...

He sounds like a lovely man …

My favourite Irishism is "I am amn't I". Fills me with joy.

Makes much more sense grammatically than aren't I. It's he is, isn't he, they are, aren't they etc. So I am, amn't I follows suit.

I like ‘does be’! and after

I’m after washing me hair, it does be manky after a days work

I don't know what the English for does be is!

Me either - ‘is’ doesn’t cover it!

Ooh I'm getting all dialect happy!

I'm in South West UK and it takes a while to figure out that youarerite pronounced as one word just means hello, and I don't want your life story.

Wubbleyou

It always grinds my ear when I read 'An hotel'

I know it makes sense to a southern English accent that would drop the H sound in Hotel, but I just hate seeing it written down

There's no equivalent in English. It came from Irish in Hiberno-english.

Well I kinda know that @OchonAgusOchonOh 😭

Of course you do! I wasn't paying attention. You had to endure Peig too if I recall correctly from other threads 😁

Sadly yes

Well aitch is generally correct but some people do say haitch. It seems a very trivial thing to notice and be concerned with.

So glad my work doesn't!
The only thing I do on the phone is make sure to say 3.30 instead of half past three because I have a tendency to say haf instead of half
And nobody understands the way I say house so I ask for the first line of the address instead of house number/name