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The eighth letter of the alphabet (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 months ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to c/memes@feddit.uk
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hwhy would you say that?

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago

Saying hwhat hwerid?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I've never heard anyone anywhere pronounce it haitch.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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 8 points 5 months ago

Relevant Mitchell and Webb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE

[–] Bort@hilariouschaos.com 7 points 5 months ago

This makes zed sense

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months 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.
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I just pronounce it as H.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Hå...

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Herb

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Halpert? Or Ancock?

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Orogono

[–] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

"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 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

same reason they drop the L sound in guillotine

[–] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

I refuse to believe that a majority of people say "Haitch". They're the left side of the graph.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 5 months ago

Where is the etch gang at?

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

hAiTcH oR aItCh

English is a real language.

Hoo.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

sconn V scöne

[–] CassiniWarden 1 points 5 months ago

The aich letter of the alphabet.