c/memes · by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 1yThe eighth letter of the alphabet 45 points · 26 comments · view on lemmy.world
26 Comments
9point6@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Anyone that says Haich was banged too hard on the head as a child and you'll never change my mind
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
Hwhy would you say that?
SatyrSack@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y
Saying hwhat hwerid?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I've never heard anyone anywhere pronounce it haitch.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y
It's common in Irish communities and in random places across the UK.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The YouTubers NerdCubed and Real Civil Engineer, both British AFAIK, both say (or at least said) it that way.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 324d
Okay? I'm sure you can infer from the existence of this thread and the reactions to it that others have encountered it often enough to be noteworthy.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 1y
Relevant Mitchell and Webb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE
Bort@hilariouschaos.com · 7 pts · 1y
This makes zed sense
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Hå...
x00z@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I just pronounce it as H.
klu9@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
Anyone remember who did the TV comedy sketch with the following exchange? (I'm thinking Dick Emery, but not sure.)
Cort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Herb
Patch@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
I'm an h-in-herb kinda guy. 'erb actually feels like more effort to say.
klu9@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Halpert? Or Ancock?
Cort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Orogono
Tweak@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 324d
"I take a hit, but it smells like a glove; oh fuck I got a baggie of oregano"
Offspring ruined my pronounciation.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
The people who put an H in aitch are the same who never pronounce the h in any other word.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
I never got why some people put an extra aitch at the start of aitch.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 324d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
same reason they drop the L sound in guillotine
Tweak@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 324d
I refuse to believe that a majority of people say "Haitch". They're the left side of the graph.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Imagine thelleter actually making the sound that it usually does when used in words. Couldn't be the english spelling.
Bezier@suppo.fi · 1 pts · 1y
English is a real language.
Hoo.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
sconn V scöne
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 1y
Where is the etch gang at?
CassiniWarden@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1y
The aich letter of the alphabet.