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dulwichgirl2 - I don't know anything about St. Paul's or Westminster but my son was given the opportunity and he went. He met people who had come from all over the place, including one teenager from America, who he still keeps in contact with.


He's reading History and by the way he says Aitch.


zeban - I was just picking up on your post where you mentioned people are more forgiving, unless your talking about an interview for Oxford that's all.


I consider myself working class, pronounce H as Haytch and I'm not going to change it now as it's part of me.

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Okay yes, it is 'aitch' and when a Londoner says 'haitch' he/she sounds like Harold Steptoe, true, but I would gladly have everyone say 'haitch' or even bloody 'haitcha!' if only those who do so would stop saying 'of' when they mean 'have'.


They even write it down ffs, 'I would of done the same thing' 'He should of known better' without seeing that that doesn't make any fucking sense.


Stop it.


Okay unnecessarily bile-ridden and slightly ranty but all the syrupy sweetness surrounding Boris's end-of-term fete and the Stepford feel in here has got me feeling (h)itchy lately.

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It's not only the Irish who say 'haitch'. A friend of mind grew up in the north somewhere h's aren't aspirated in the local dialect/accent. When she came south (and when she wanted to sound posher) she tended to stick an h in front of any word that started with a vowel.


I'll take a risk here and say that people who find 'haitch' irritating aren't bothered by the 'h' as much as the quality of the vowel that follows...

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