H

WindSock

How to you spell the letter H?

MaybeLogic

Aytch

Haitch.
Londoners spell it 'aitch.

Hazys

h

mikom

S T E P S

4zn76tysfajdxp

WindSock wrote: »

How to you spell the letter H?

*Shakes head*

I expected better from you, WindSock.

bonerm

Rimmer.

markok84

S T E P S

no he's dead http://www.fhm.com/imgs/631/400/0/original/Full200909101228062380979_hfromstepsisdead631x400.jpgx

WindSock

Aytch

Alayah Numerous Pickaxe wrote: »

*Shakes head*

I expected better from you, WindSock.

Ok. How do you spell the letter F?

Is that better?

biko

Haytch

I mix *blames American TV*

The_Kew_Tour

you know there not much talk about when threads like this start

AssaultedPeanut

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Aren't Haitch and Haytch & Aytch and Aitch the same, seeing as you're talking about phonetic spelling?

Anyway I said Haytch

MaybeLogic

Aytch

Only 2 of the above are correct, however.

Dj Stiggie

Aytch

Its actually ridiculous. I was thinking about this yesterday, not enough to start a thread about it, but thinking about it none-the-less.

I said haitch in the poll, but because of my inability to pronounce many words correctly, for example, I always say tree instead of three, leading to much confusion, particularly among Americans, I say haychhhh

Kanye

#

/Francais.

Prof.Badass

Haych, no t.

To join in with the subtly veiled english-bashing, does anyone else find people who say "sickth" instead of "sixth" really annoying?

Dionysus

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WindSock wrote: »

How to you spell the letter H?

with a 'h', obviously, just as it should be pronounced. But never 'an historic' 'an hotel' 'an house' etc.

The reason British people don't pronounce the 'h' is entirely to do with Latin, when the initial 'h' was dropped in pronunciation of words with Latin roots. However, many English people have a habit of transferring this practice to words without any Latin root, e.g. 'an hedge'.

The current edition of the OED has a note under 'an' which favours 'a' over 'an' in front of h, ergo 'a historic' is now deemed to be more correct than 'an historic'.

ejmaztec

Starsky and Aitch.

GLaDOS

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Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l93K93-Cjs

Bonito

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The REAL H

http://www.webelements.com/hydrogen/

antodeco

I spell H > H.

However, I pronounce it Haytch (Like if the word Hey and Bitch had a baby)

jd007

I pronounce it "h".

JimmyCrackCorn

WindSock wrote: »

How to you spell the letter H?

Hydrogen

Buford T Justice

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Tut tut tut. I thought the Lets ban everything thread was pants....

Now this?

Slow day in AH today.

Bonito

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Bonito wrote: »

The REAL H

http://www.webelements.com/hydrogen/

JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »

Hydrogen

Bet you to it :cool:

WindSock

Aytch

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Tut tut tut. I thought the Lets ban everything thread was pants....

Now this?

Slow day in AH today.

Oh Hi Fingers McGee, I noticed you chose the spelling option of H as Haych. Would you mind clarifying how you would spell the letter A so I can understand your post better?

ibarelycare

Aytch

I voted "haitch" but the alphabet is being taught phonetically now so it should be "huh"

Bonito

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WindSock wrote: »

Oh Hi Fingers McGee, I noticed you chose the spelling option of H as Haych. Would you mind clarifying how you would spell the letter A so I can understand your post better?

Like Fonzie would

Ayyyyyyyyye :pac:

brummytom

What's the difference in the poll between Haitch and Haytch?


Anyway, I say one of those ^^^. I pronounce the 'h' sound at the start for the letter; but quite often, I'd miss out a H from the beginning of a word. ('ere, 'and, 'elp); not always though.

Buford T Justice

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WindSock wrote: »

Oh Hi Fingers McGee, I noticed you chose the spelling option of H as Haych. Would you mind clarifying how you would spell the letter A so I can understand your post better?

But of course. I simply spell it as "a" or "A" if its the start of a sentence.:D

Now, as for pronouncing it, well thats a different matter altogether.

I'd have to go with bonito on this one. "ey" - Just like the Fonze.

Gone Drinking

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Hardon

And yes, you give me one WindSock

panda100

Haitch

I went to school in England and was taught to say 'aitch'.
Haitch is just what Irish people use and is not proper English.

Bonito

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Panda110 wrote: »

I went to school in England and was taught to say 'aitch'.
Haitch is just what Irish people use and is not proper English.

Suppose that's why an is put in front of words.

For example - an 'istoric event - doesn't sound right if it's an Historic event

MaybeLogic

Aytch

Panda110 wrote: »

I went to school in England and was taught to say 'aitch'.
Haitch is just what Irish people use and is not proper English.

Oh la-di-da. Proper English.

WindSock

Aytch

Pffft. What would the English know about English?

Besides which 75% of people fail the exam for not answering the question asked, which was how do you spell, not pronounce.

dr.bollocko

This thread doesn't even deserve caustic derision.
/spits on thread.

brummytom

Panda110 wrote: »

I went to school in England and was taught to say 'aitch'.
Haitch is just what Irish people use and is not proper English.

We're not taught that?

we'llallhavetea_old

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vinylmesh wrote: »

Haych, no t.

To join in with the subtly veiled english-bashing, does anyone else find people who say "sickth" instead of "sixth" really annoying?

god yes, and "fith" instead of "fifth", davina mccall does it and it upsets me.

Kiith

I haitch these threads.

Mike 1972

Some people in NI have a bizzare preoccupation with this subject for some reason

itsallaboutheL

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Some people in NI have a bizzare preoccupation with this subject for some reason

No son, you seem to have mixed up pronunciation with sectarian violence...

AnonoBoy

'ello all wat's going on 'ere?

baalthor

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

No son, you seem to have mixed up pronunciation with sectarian violence...

Unfortunately, the two are related in some situations. Pronunciations can be used to distinguish one side from the other

I've heard of Loyalist paramilitaries in NI stopping people and asking them to spell "house" for example.
If you pronounce H the "Irish" way ... not good ...

Similarly, in WW2 the Dutch resistance used the pronunciation of the town of Scheveningen to detect German spies in their ranks.

The first record of this kind of thing is in the Bible:

Gilead then cut Ephraim off from the fords of the Jordan, and whenever Ephraimite fugitives said, 'Let me cross,' the men of Gilead would ask, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he said, 'No,' they then said, 'Very well, say Shibboleth.' If anyone said, 'Sibboleth', because he could not pronounce it, then they would seize him and kill him by the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell on this occasion.

So this way of detecting someones origins is known as a Shibboleth

Mike 1972

baalthor wrote: »

So this way of detecting someones origins is known as a Shibboleth

How does one pronounce it ?

asking them to spell "house" for example. If you pronounce H the "Irish" way ... not good ..

one could always spell it "Teach"

Dionysus

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Panda110 wrote: »

I went to school in England and was taught to say 'aitch'.
Haitch is just what Irish people use and is not proper English.

Ahem. "Proper English" indeed; the reason why English people drop the 'h' sound is simply because it was dropped in Latin words. No educated English person would drop the 'h' from a word which does not have a Latin origin.

As I said, 'a historic' and not 'an historic' is deemed to be more correct according to the Oxford English Dictionary today (see note under 'An').

Kiith

Dionysus wrote: »

Ahem. "Proper English" indeed; the reason why English people drop the 'h' sound is simply because it was dropped in Latin words. No educated English person would drop the 'h' from a word which does not have a Latin origin.

As I said, 'a historic' and not 'an historic' is deemed to be more correct according to the Oxford English Dictionary today (see note under 'An').

Was that a serious, educated answer....in AH?

Dionysus

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Kiith wrote: »

Was that a serious, educated answer....in AH?

Alas, we can but try

humberklog

Haitch

Dionysus wrote: »

Ahem. "Proper English" indeed; the reason why English people drop the 'h' sound is simply because it was dropped in Latin words. No educated English person would drop the 'h' from a word which does not have a Latin origin.

As I said, 'a historic' and not 'an historic' is deemed to be more correct according to the Oxford English Dictionary today (see note under 'An').

There was this thread over on the English language forum.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055765414



Aitch for me.

congo_90

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What if ya spell it with a 'H' instead of 'h'? is it wrong?
I say good riddance to the pronounciation.

Damn h coming here and eating our upside down w

pickarooney

Aytch

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Some people in NI have a bizzare preoccupation with this subject for some reason

That reason being that it's a shibboleth - catholic/nationalists aspirate while unionist/protestants don't, as a general rule. But I think you knew that.

I think only Irish people and some Australians pronounce the letter with a 'h' at the beginning.

edit: already said by faster people

Dionysius wrote:

Ahem. "Proper English" indeed; the reason why English people drop the 'h' sound is simply because it was dropped in Latin words. No educated English person would drop the 'h' from a word which does not have a Latin origin.

As I said, 'a historic' and not 'an historic' is deemed to be more correct according to the Oxford English Dictionary today (see note under 'An').

That's twice you've completely missed the point of the thread - it's about the pronunciation of the letter.


Next, who pronounces the 'h' sound in words like 'white', 'whether', 'whip' ?

Liam Byrne

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Bonito wrote: »

Bet you to it :cool:

Really ? What were the odds ?

m@cc@

Aytch

Panda110 wrote: »

Haitch is just what Irish people use and is not proper English.

The term 'proper English' is a myth since it's a subjective term.