"Haitch" on the BBC!

I fink I've run out of strengf!

All I hear is Al .. monds nowadays and that does sound wrong it's always been ARMONDS
Put me out my misery how should I be saying law and awe if it's not lor and or
and I also say drawring ...........well this is a Haitch of a problem

It's a generational thing language and pronounciation is changing all the time we can't make it stand still because we are old, why dig our heels in move with the times

Merlot, yes, never Haitch!! Modern? Nah!
I've noticed Mayor, formerly 'mare' is now often pronounced 'mayor' in the meja.
Anyone else always said 'almonds' and quite recently discovered that it's been correctly pronounced 'aumonds' all along?? Is it a Midlands thing?

Gosh. Have just tried to say law and awe differently and have to contort my mouth in all sorts of strange ways to make different sounds.

I confess my law and awe sound like lore and ore! It must be a regional thing. I am not apologising either!

Now, can someone give me some idea of how they should sound??? I am perplexed!

I hear "haitch" more frequently than "aitch", and from by people from all regions and walks of life. It doesn't bother me half as much as "drawring", "lore"(law) and ore (awe)!

Those who say "Haitch" should be covered in jam and left where the wasps can get them! Alternatively, go through every dictionary in the English language until they understand that Haitch is NOT an acceptable word!

In my experience it is an age thing - the younger people I come into contact with at work ( late 20s/early30s) nearly all say haitch - this includes young people from different parts of the country and all are highly educated professionals. I hate it

I wonder if it is a regional thing.

Maybe I was wrong to say it's the modern CORRECT way and should just have said the modern way All the young people I know say Haitch and that goes for private schools or local so don't think it's a class thing well not round here anyway
I ve caught it too although I grew up saying aitch it just feels wrong to drop the huh now

In my area the aitch/haitch generally denotes where you/your parents were educated.

In the Catholic maintained schools it is haitch. In the remainder of the schools in the education system it is aitch.

Yes, in the dictionaries, it is pronounced "aitch", not "haitch". It really irritates me when I hear "haitch"!
Changing topic slightly, it irritates me when people say they are "drawing" letters and numerals. No, they are not - they are writing them!

Not me! Teresa for me. "THeresa is too hard for me to pronounce. My teeth get in the way.

I meant to say, where I live in Scotland, you hardly hear "HAITCH", not "aitch" as I wrote. Dammed tablet!
A few of the children in the school I taught, would say "Haitch". I think they picked it up from TV programmes. They were soon corrected by their teachers.

Do the people who say An TH ony also say TH eresa?

I associate the use of haitch with the Midlands.

Nooooo.....
I'm from the Midlands and we were always very particular about pronouncing H as aitch!! As in the aitch-bone.

Ha, ha. My son says I only call him AnTHony when he is in trouble. The rest of the time, I call him AnTony.

My brother in law is called that, merlot, and comes from 'ull. He says haitch.

Same here, merlot ! (Also applies to other words, such as serviette, invites and settee)

Are the people who say haitch the same ones who say, 'Anth-ony?'

Sorry to disagree BlueBelle, but no way is Haitch the "modern correct pronunciation" !

With you all the way Marydoll

I always find it strange that people from 'ull say haitch.

All younger people don't say 'haitch' or not the ones that I know, anyway. I'm in Scotland too. I associate the use of haitch with the Midlands.

Hell will freeze over before I say haitch.

The Oxford dictionary gives the correct pronunciation as"aitch". Where I live in Scotland, you rarely hear "aitch" . I think it is a regional thing.

The spelling in the dictionary is "aitch", so as a pedant, that is how I will continue to pronounce it. It drives me mad when I hear "haitch".