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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Anyone that says Haich was banged too hard on the head as a child and you'll never change my mind

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Saying hwhat hwerid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've never heard anyone anywhere pronounce it haitch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's common in Irish communities and in random places across the UK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The YouTubers NerdCubed and Real Civil Engineer, both British AFAIK, both say (or at least said) it that way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

This makes zed sense

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I just pronounce it as H.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I never got why some people put an extra aitch at the start of aitch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm an h-in-herb kinda guy. 'erb actually feels like more effort to say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The people who put an H in aitch are the same who never pronounce the h in any other word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine thelleter actually making the sound that it usually does when used in words. Couldn't be the english spelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The aich letter of the alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

sconn V scöne

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Where is the etch gang at?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

hAiTcH oR aItCh

English is a real language.

Hoo.