The letter H - it's 'aitch' not 'haitch' - Grrr

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DP insists on pronoucing it 'haitch' - drives this pedant potty.

Oh FFS - now I can't spell pronouncing...

The toher one I hate is J pronounce J-eye and not "Jay".

Ds gets that corrected when he does that. He hears "J-eye" at school.

Oh, I agree, vehemently. I always want to ask people 'do you pronounce the letter S as 'sess'? Or L as 'lell'?

I had never heard it pronounced 'haitch' until I came here.

Or J said as anything other than 'jay'.

My 92 year old Great Aunt (who is foul-mouthed) says it too, but adds "a" in front of it "a-haitch)

She can often be heard saying "Everyone calls me Floss, but me real name's A-Hemily"

Bless her cottons.

She will normally complete her conversation by calling her neighbour a cunt or something and then taking a big drag from her Menthol Superking.

Nice.

I have never heard J-eye

Am sure he does it just to irritate me! Think he's going to try and teach ds to say it too just to make things worse!

It's just a dialect difference, isn't it? Neither is more correct than the other. After all, we have 'bee' for 'B', etc, so the 'sess' analogy doen't really work.

I've never heard J-eye either (thank god).

Probably, threadworm, but it irritates me none the less !!!

My elderly northern grandparents have trouble with this one.

When saying any word that begins with H they pronounce it without the h sound then add afterwards, 'with a haitch'.

So, for example, "Her name is 'elen with a haitch".

Quite sweet, though, it doesn't irritate me.

Oh, and imo it is not just dialect difference, 'haitch' is actually incorrect.

I say haitch all the time I am very common and from nottingham.

Never j-eye though, wtf?

Dh's glaswegie rellies say J-eye and as a sheep he then puts on his accent and says it like that to please them. He does say aitch though. My mum is from Dublin and says haitch and ore for R. Dd says aitch but ds says haitch. This is down to their respective teachers and regional accents. I've one f%&£ed up family .

Jeye seems to be a Glasgwo thing. Don't know about the rest of Scoltand.

I'm going to have to have a word with ds (7)though: while it is OK for us to correct him when he says things like "J(eye)" or "I seen (x)", it is not OK for him to crrect his friends! It is not the best "how to make friends and influnce people" strategy

one of my pet hates this

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAitch

I am Irish and haitch is what we say. Not incorrect, just dialect. And while we are on the subject, why do the English pronounce r as ah?

I'm Irish and I say aitch because that's how it spelt.

I used to have a boyfriend who did that. He quickly became an ex-boyfriend - it's intolerable

H is spelled aitch? Isn't it spelled H?

Haitch is incorrect. Look in the dictionary. Aitch is in there as a proper word, 'haitch' isn't. It's not even standardised dialect.

Yes it is. How strange.

I wonder why El isn't in the dictionary, you know for L. Or En for N. Or dee for D. Why does aithc get a special word???

Um, I think they are...at least some of them, e.g. en and em. They can be handy in scrabble.

En isn't.
Em is in but only as an abbreviation of Em.

I must get a life