Re: How to pronounce the letter "H"

Adam Funk wrote:
 > On 2025-06-09, Tilde wrote:
 >
 >>
 >> For English speakers anyways...
 >>
 >> https://theweek.com/culture-life/tv-radio/aitch-or-haitch-the-linguisitic-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.
 >
 > <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/haitch-or-aitch-pronunciation-letter-h-old-english-a8393766.html>
"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".
The general rule I learned in pronouncing individual
letters was that if the letter's sound begain with a
vowel sound you used "a" otherwise it was "an". Ex
Do you say    an N
or     a N
The former is "correct" as N is pronounced   "en"
So, is it   a H   (haitch)
or   an H      (aitch)
The former is torturous...