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?

Have we discussed 'film' yet???

There is obviously only one correct pronunciation of film. It's fill-um

I wish it were referred to as a film, with either/any pronunciation. Unfortunately, all we seem to hear now is it being called a 'movie'.

Absolutely no parallels with haitch/aitch and ask/arks!!! Ffs!!

moo-vee

a basic professional standard

Poor old the English with their status obsessions.

Then there is "power shower"

Par shar

Aks for ask is dialect as well isn't it? I wouldn't correct it.

In work I sometimes have to give presentations to groups of quite 'proper' (stuffy) donors so I'd be conscious of aitching in that context, just so they're not clutching their companion and saying 'Good Lord, Cedric, she haitched'. Threads like this have made me realise some English people can fixate on it. And it's not just with H. With friends and family I'd say 'ye' for a collective you as, lots of Irish people do, but I also wouldn't 'ye' the donors either.

With R it's not that I think my pronunciation is wrong in any way, it's just that Irish people pronounce R as ORE whereas British people say ARGH. So it's purely to make myself understood. I remember once talking about the TV show ER to an English colleague and they thought I was talking about Eeyore the donkey.

Yeah I wouldn't code switch with Haitch but I've had to with the letter R to make myself understood in the past.

Primark existed in NI for yonks before it made its way to GB and it was always called pree-mark on their TV ads. Nowadays the company says the brand name should be pronounced pr-eye-mark, but that's definitely only a recent development.

I call it Penney's wherever I am.

I worked in Primark for years and we all definitely called it Preemark - I’d say that way is dominant in Scotland, whereas the other (wrong!) way is more common elsewhere. I did the tannoy announcements so I was officially in charge of the official pronunciation, so what I say goes.

(I am joking, kind of)

And Scottish people pronounce R as “arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” like a pirate

and J-EYE for J

They're not going to given any numpty control of the tannoy! So yes, what you say goes. Pr-eye-mark me eye!

i don’t see how jay can possibly be correct, the song clearly goes “aitch eye j-eye Kay ELLEMENOPEE”

Disgustingly vulgar, how dare they shorten it form Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, I am getting my butler to send a strongly worded letter to the chairman, tsk tsk

PS get a life 😜

I mean,...yes. When sung by a Scot.

But … surely you must think it sounds better with those lyrics? I accept the American pronunciation of Z for the purposes of this song, and I would argue the Scottish pronunciation of J should be universally used for the alphabet song.

Try it, I bet you’ll like it!

but jaykay

it's not me you need to persuade, it's Sesame Street! If Kermit and Co give J-eye the green light I'll fall in line.

I shall petition my ideas immediately. Be the change you want to see.

You go, girl!

Bounce into the initial meeting with Jai Ho by the Pussycat Dolls blasting.

I love the confidence you have in me that this will get as far as a meeting! I’m willing to take this all the way. Should I just send my petition straight to Biden? Surely they will be pleased that I’m approving their pronunciation of Z (only for the purpose of this song - outwith the alphabet song, they are wrong) and a fair trade would be that they also officially approve J-eye?

Very true!! I even catch myself doing it sometimes and hate that I do!!