The Letter 'H'

lol you should know by now im only messing :(

and, no its not that it has a h lol, its just the way you pronounce the two

either one.

i went into nerd google mode and found a website about the letter 'h' LOL.


and this, which is soo true, i remember if you prononced it wrong in english by accident everyone in the class would be like OMG YOUR A CATHOLIC :@

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If the dropping of aitch is a social marker, the pronunciation of the letter h can also be a social, political, and sectarian marker. In the Irish Republic, the haitch pronunciation is common, but the situation is more complex in Northern Ireland where, it is claimed, Catholics say haitch, whereas the royalist Protestants follow the poms and say aitch. We are told in a Northern Irish newspaper that ‘H is the most dangerous letter in the Northern Ireland alphabet. Catholics supposedly say haitch, when Protestants say aitch. There may not be any scientific evidence for this trait but bigots can’t even spell scientific—so, depending on how you say it, H can get you a right kicking’.This is tongue-in-cheek, of course, but a quick surf through the Internet provided ample evidence for this aitch/haitch divide in Northern Ireland—say haitch in a proddy area or aitch in a mick area and you could very well be in for ‘a right kicking’.

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I say aich - I knwo alot of people who say Haich... The correct eloquentic way of saying it is 'Aich' though.

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Originally Posted by kk.

what wod beginning with H do you know you say beginning with aitch? its like hello, you pronounce the h not jsut say ello, hard to explain lol. some people might say ello but thats because of slang

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when you use the letter W who ever says "double-you"?

true, but you dont have another way of saying w do you :P

I say aitch and today, somebody said "any" how you would say it.. and my teacher said its not proper english and is pronounced " Annie " lolllll

aich for me

Haitch

I've always pronounced it as 'Haitch', my english teacher used to say that English people pronounce it as 'Haitch' and American people pronounce it as 'Aitch', although I'm not really sure if its true of if she was making it up.