Re: How to pronounce the letter "H"

On 2025-06-09, Tilde wrote:

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For English speakers anyways...
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https://theweek.com/culture-life/tv-radio/aitch-or-haitch-the-linguisitic-debate-that-matters-a-lot
APRIL 15, 2024
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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.

doing it incorrectly during his first series
presenting the BBC quiz.
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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>


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