Sign In: or Sign Up! (forgotten password?)

how do you pronounce "H?"

aich or haich?



  • aitch.

    Because that IS how you pronounce heych

  • haich

  • aich

    the whole point of letter phonetics is that in spelling the word phonetically you don't use the letter in it's own phonetic context.

    • no it's not but whatever

      • it is!

        what would be the use of writing out a letter phonetically if you had to use that letter in the proccess?
        Like you could make A -"ey" or E - "ii"

        • ey beeeeeeeeeeee si deeeeeeeeee

        • it actually isn't (i have a degree in phonetics)

          but oftentimes it is the case.

          It's to provide a system of all sounds that are physically possible to pronounce with the human mouth

        • what about M?

          • yeah and like most of the letters

            B and D i gave above as examples.

    • suck my kiss

  • haitch

    because its the right way

    • IT'S NOT! NON-ENGLISH PEOPLE INVENTED THAT WAY!

  • aich of course

    for that is it's name.

  • Henry

    I give all the letters names

    Abigail
    Beth
    Christopher
    Dennis
    Mike
    Fiona
    Garry

    etc.

  • aich

  • aich

    which is the correct way of doing it. 'Haitch' is only acceptable in Hiberno-English

    • Is that a fancy way of saying

      'sleep talking'?

      I prefer to call it zzzzing

  • STUART

    I hope you are reading this. I told you.

  • i say aich

    i find it strange how a lot of english people put an h on the front of it when normally they drop that letter.
    i was selling shoes to an englishman a few days ago and he said "i'll 'ave those" and i thought he said "i love those" so i was like "yeah, they're really nice haha."

    • It's not English people who do that, it's Irish people and their descendants

      or Aussies and their descendents.

      As standard, H is pronounced 'AITCH'.

      • yeah i meant the english people

        who do drop their Hs seem to do this which is odd.

  • aitch

  • "I don't care if he does drop his aitches, so long as he's all cucumber and hooves."

    but I am not Goassmer Beynon. It is aitch and should be said as such.

  • "h"

    duh.

  • 'aitch' for that is the only correct way.

    Sure, you can drink a can of Coca-Cola by drilling through the base and then pouring the contents into your mouth, but you're not supposed to.

    This analogy is fucking brilliant.

    Shut up.

  • ay-tsch

    • In Northern Ireland, this is a common way

      to determine someone's religion.

      Protestants say aich and Catholics say haich (for the most part).

      I'm not too sure how this works in the rest of the UK though.

      • In the rest of the UK

        Its the normal people who say aich and the spastics/uneducated who say haich.

  • aych - haytch people can fuck off

    • /\ This /\

      This is similar to the 'oh' 'zero' debacle isnt it?

      • More comparible to 'jay' or 'jie' for J

        (it's the former by the way)

  • huh

  • eh-ch

    this is correct innit

    • like "etch-a-sketch"? No, that's wrong.

  • AITCH

    anyone who pronounces it differently faces me talking to you about my rabbit for a long time.

    • Come on, the two aren't remotely connected.

      AITCH, by the way.

  • Obviously aich,

    no two ways about it, aich is just right.

    • I pronounce it the incorrect way

      it's just the way i is

  • haitch

    seeing as it's about describing the letter H. This is as retarded as talking about Have or av.

    • Aich

      Haich is what common people say

  • aitch

    halfwits say 'haitch' because otherwise they can't remember that it's the letter that makes the 'huh' sound.

    See also 'Wubble-U'

    • wubble-u? As a linguistics graduate, that makes me sad

      • He's talking about Russians, the big racist.

        He probably loves wodka too, the massive hypocrite.

  • haitch, aitch whatever

    I don't really listen to myself most of the time