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Aitch, NOT Haitch please!!!

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Trisha57 Mon 02-Mar-20 20:06:38

MiniMoon - my husband always laughs at me when I do that! grin

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Trisha57 Mon 02-Mar-20 20:05:01

jura2 - not a problem with putting h's in the wrong place (my nan used to do just that when she talked about "hairing the clothes on the clothes line", just the mispronouciation of the letter itself!

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jura2 Mon 02-Mar-20 20:00:37

ah well, life is short ... honestly.

As a native French speaker, I used to put 'h's everywhere they weren't, and none where they should be.

Told future OH I wanted to be a Hairostess. Still laught about it. And spend much of my time correcting my current French students learning English with me. Why on earth get henraged habout hit.

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MiniMoon Mon 02-Mar-20 19:59:51

Me too Trisha. I'm always shouting "aitch" at people on the television.

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Trisha57 Mon 02-Mar-20 19:54:15

It always enrages me when people pronouce the letter "H" as Haitch. Petty, I know, but it really gets my goat!

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