My son this morning said HAITCH

[Twiglett]

I should throw him out shouldn't I?

Makes you ecumenical, Dino...

my dd has said haitch.
she also says j-aye for jay.

quite common in scotland

Just so long as you don't have to spell anything out for them, Dino. You could find yourself at Aldi in a heartbeat...

Ha! I'm an Irish prod (a rare breed) and I say aitch and are not haitch and or. Case proven.

Yeah my kids all say Haitch.

It must be a school thing as They Haven't Heard It From Me

Buda - the sound is huh but the letter is called aitch. You don't say Xex do you?

(oh I see others have made this point already)

They also sometimes fall into the bizarre local habit of saying necklace (ie like shoelace) which drives me bananas!

Ok ok - am getting the fact that my argument about the "huh" sound is not making sense working.

Still think it makes sense as 'haitch' rather than 'aitch' and I will say 'haitch' with pride as a nod to my Irish Catholic roots.

So there!

Could change my name to "Haitch" but it might end up like the whole "AntiCod" saga!

what's wrong with necklace? Do you say neckless? I'm afraid you'd call me bananas Clary.

no quickdraw, I say necklus, like 99% of the population (yes I know I say shoelace differently tho it's spelled the same, but then there's cough, bough, through etc etc)

hmmm I'll think about that one and do a poll on the Irish population. Surely the word is derived from lace that purty lay-deez used to wear around their necks though, no??

If you are in a pedantic mode I think your title should be 'this morning my son said haitch'.

DH is Irish Catholic .. says Aitch .. I know because I made him say his alphabet this morning .. tried to make him say it last night too but he told me where I could get off quite forcibly

title is ok IMO, I just left out the commas

Is leaving out the commas acceptable behaviour for a pedant?

well of course it isn't

but fark it

[snigger]

I hate posting in the Pedant topic. I'm paranoid about making grammatical errors.

No no no and no! You don't say HAITCH just because the sound is huh. You don't say wubble-you because the sound is wuh! What nonsense. There is absolutly no excuse for saying haitch. Look it up in the dictionary (H). It's spelled AITCH. I think it stems from the working classes trying to sound posh by adding an h at the beginning. It's horrid and wrong and I would lock my kids in the coal shed for a week if they said it. (If I had a coal shed that is ).

My teacher in Juniors taught me that: All the letters of the alaphabet begin with themselves except aitch, which is pronounced AITCH.

I checked this out when ds started saying Haitch. Apparently both ways are correct, but can't remember where I rread it!

My teacher in Juniors taught me that: All the letters of the alaphabet begin with themselves except aitch, which is pronounced AITCH.

I checked this out when ds started saying Haitch. Apparently both ways are correct, but can't remember where I rread it!

oh yes of course you checked it out, but can't remember where now [snigger]

permission to be entirely scathing? ....

your teacher was an idiot by the way .. because 'c' doesn't begin with itself (as it's most common usage is hard) and neither does wubble-u

hang on a tic .. on a roll now

so letters in the alphabet that don't begin with themselves

see (C)
eff (F)
aitch (H)
el (L)
em (M)
en (N)
arr (R)
ess (S)
you (U)
double-u (W)
ex (X)
why (Y)

Yes...hmm, my teacher lied! I was only 8 and always believed it without really thinking about it......

Perhaps she said it was the only one that didn't sound like itself, yes I think it must have been that.

Or did she get that wrong too? Am too tired to think straight......