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HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to UK Memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months ago

The eighth letter of the alphabet

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The eighth letter of the alphabet

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HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to UK Memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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
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      Hwhy would you say that?

      • SatyrSack@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        Saying hwhat hwerid?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’ve never heard anyone anywhere pronounce it haitch.

      • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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        It’s common in Irish communities and in random places across the UK.

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

  • tetris11@feddit.uk
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    Relevant Mitchell and Webb:

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

  • Bort@hilariouschaos.com
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    This makes zed sense

  • klu9@lemmy.ca
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    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.
  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Hå…

  • Cort@lemmy.world
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    Herb

    • Patch@feddit.uk
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      I’m an h-in-herb kinda guy. 'erb actually feels like more effort to say.

    • klu9@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Halpert? Or Ancock?

      • Cort@lemmy.world
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        Orogono

  • x00z@lemmy.world
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    I just pronounce it as H.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    I never got why some people put an extra aitch at the start of aitch.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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    The people who put an H in aitch are the same who never pronounce the h in any other word.

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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    Imagine thelleter actually making the sound that it usually does when used in words. Couldn’t be the english spelling.

  • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org
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    Where is the etch gang at?

  • CassiniWarden@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    The aich letter of the alphabet.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    sconn V scöne

  • Bezier@suppo.fi
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    hAiTcH oR aItCh

    English is a real language.

    Hoo.

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