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'Haitch' or 'Aitch'? How do you pronounce 'H'?

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'Haitch'. :sigh:
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aitch...
Haitch sounds cute:smile:
To all those saying 'haitch' - how do you pronounce 'NHS'?
Original post by Procerus
how could you not pronounce the H in haitch? that would be weird, do you say Ello instead of Hello?


What?

Haitch isn't a word, it's just how some people pronounce the letter.
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'Aitch'. Just like 'butter' and 'matter', not 'buh-uh' and 'mah-uh'.
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Original post by Procerus
are you one of those weirdos that pronounces Z as zed?

:stupid: .... Is it not 'zed' ?
Haitch.

and what.

Are you avin a laff?
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Original post by Procerus
are you one of those weirdos that pronounces Z as zed?


Again, like 'aitch' is the correct pronunciation of 'H', 'zed' is the correct pronunciation of 'Z'
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Procerus
Original post by najinaji
'Aitch'. Just like 'butter' and 'matter', not 'buh-uh' and 'mah-uh'.


why would you not pronounce the T's?
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Aack
I say "eye hyphen eye" in order to avoid discussions such as this.
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Well I say it more as "Haychh".
Original post by Procerus
why would you not pronounce the T's?


Exactly. 'Butter' is pronounced 'butter' because it has t's in it. 'Aitch' is pronounced 'Aitch', because there isn't an 'h' at the beginning. Simple.
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Original post by Schlegel
:stupid: .... Is it not 'zed' ?


From experience people can either say it as

"Zed"

or

"Zee" (pronounce Zero and it's the first part. Ze.)
Original post by Jack Dolan
To all those saying 'haitch' - how do you pronounce 'NHS'?


enn-haitch-ess

:holmes:
Original post by Jack Dolan
Exactly. 'Butter' is pronounced 'butter' because it has t's in it. 'Aitch' is pronounced 'Aitch', because there isn't an 'h' at the beginning. Simple.


But Aitch is not a word. So you can't "sound it out"
Original post by jaydemikaela
But Aitch is not a word. So you can't "sound it out"


Yes it is, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Aitch.
Original post by Jack Dolan
Yes it is, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary.


So aitch is a word but haitch isn't?
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Original post by Procerus
are you one of those weirdos that pronounces Z as zed?


Yes!! How'd you guess?!

And I even write 'Z' as Z. Being a mathematician I use Z quite a lot and I've found that international students find it easier if you say Zed as it is quite distinctive.

There really is no good reason to use 'Zee'.

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