From: a24061@ducksburg.com

On 2025-07-01, Tilde wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
> > On 2025-06-09, Tilde wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> For English speakers anyways...
> >>
> >>
> https://theweek.com/culture-life/tv-radio/aitch-or-haitch-the-
inguisitic-debate-that-matters-a-lot
> >> APRIL 15, 2024
> >>
> >> The host of "University Challenge", Amol Rajan,
> >> is to change the way he pronounces the letter
> >> "H" after complaints from viewers that he was
> >
> > Snobs, presumably. "Haitch" sounds odd to me, because it's rare
> > where I come from, but I wouldn't send in complaints about it.
>
> Yes, sounds odd. See below...
>
> >> doing it incorrectly during his first series
> >> presenting the BBC quiz.
> >>
> >> Rajan found himself at the centre of a
> >> linguistic storm when he was criticised by
> >> viewers for saying "haitch" rather than "aitch",
> >> an approach described as "horrible with a capital
> >> aitch" on social media and "truly awful" in a
> >> newspaper letters page.
> >
> > On the other hand:
> >
> >     When the letter H is pronounced beginning with the letter sound it
> >     makes, children have an easier time learning its correspondence as
> >     they learn to read.
> >
> >
>
>
> "haitch" does sound oldish. Wondering if there is a
> difference/preference between English as spoken in
> America or GB... If you recite the alphabet (again,
> this is for English speakers), sure seems to come
> out "aitch".

I'm pretty sure I've never heard "haitch" in AmE (but I can't promise
it doesn't exist in some dialects).


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