The eighth letter of the alphabet

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9point6@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (6 replies)

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 (1 reply)

Hwhy would you say that?

SatyrSack@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y

Saying hwhat hwerid?

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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.)

  • Where did you learn to drop your aitches?
  • 'Arrow.
Cort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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 (2 replies)

Halpert? Or Ancock?

Cort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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

hAiTcH oR aItCh

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.