Aitch, NOT Haitch please!!!

Nessles BlueBelle I remember now, thanks. Before they were that bad company selling dried milk powder to starving mothers in Africa.
Nescafé and presumably nessles milk. Was that the condensed milk?

Things like this irk us because we care about our language and we grew up in a time when learning to speak and write correctly was considered a good thing.

It’s a generational thing and I hold my hand up and say I ve caught it too and now it sounds perfectly normal to my ears
Not really that much of a problem we get used to it like
Nest lays (nesuls) and Porcha (always Porsche in my day and al-monds which were always armonds or even Bo da see a, who suddenly became Boo dick a
Constant change we just need to get used to them

Around here the pronunciation is Hitch.
My kids was tort that at school.
Ay, bee, cee, dee, ee, eff, jee
Hitch, eye, jeye, kay . Elomenopee,
Cue, ar, es, tee, you, vee, dubbleyou, ex, why, zed.

The ay for orse rendition is a bit different too. It's C forth (seaforth) highlanders.
Just local variations.

The spelling of the letter H is spelled aitch, so where does the h come from, when some people pronounce it haitch.

Also, many dictionaries state that aitch is standard English, whereas haitch is considered non standard, but acceptable.
Acceptable, unless you are a pedant like me. ?

I think it’s an age thing. I notice it’s ‘younger ‘ announcers/people who say ‘ haitch’ They are also the same people who say yourself instead of you and myself instead of me. Listen out it will annoy you all as much ‘haitch’

OP, why do you assume ‘aitch’ is the correct pronunciation. Or do you just prefer it if people speak like you do?

Me too. I've caught a DGC saying 'haitch", and had words!

Thank you Marydoll, for the information on jye. I grew up with it in the west of Scotland, but it is pretty rare in the NE where I live now. Perhaps it doesn't translate into Doric!

Trisha57 Totally with you on this !!!

Totally agree it gets my goat too trisha57 lol

Nanny27 I suggest that you check the OED. A previous poster did and found it isn't wrong to pronounce H in that way.

marydoll and paddyanne as an incomer to Argyll I worked in a gift shop which sold wooden alphabet letters. A customer asked me for the letter jye and I remember looking up and down the racks of letters feeling totally bemused before informing her that we didn’t have that letter. Oh, I had a lot to learn!
20 years on and living in NE England I recently informed someone that my postcode was 2*jye. ( and naturally I also said that I “stay” at such and such address as opposed to “live at”. But that’s a whole other story!)

there's no right or wrong well actually jane10 there is. The Oxford English Dictionary is the reference for all spelling and pronunciation in the English Language. If everyone just spelled and pronounced as they liked we'd end up with a system that no-one could understand.

Drives me mad.

It's Aitch

And when saying NHS I have noticed that haitchers struggle somewhat

Much easier to Aitch

In my Ayrshire school, the only person who said 'jye' was my P3 teacher with whom I had a mutually hostile relationship! I'd never heard 'haitch' until I came to live south of the Border.

Some dictionaries record what people actually say rather than what they ought to say. Also, though possibly irrelevant in this case, you have to be careful to check that online dictionaries are British and not American. Americans call their language English, but it’s different in many ways.

Recently there were a lot of news items about HS2. I noticed that BBC newsreaders etc had obviously been instructed in correct pronunciation. Not one said haitch!

paddyanne, Oxford English Dictionary (1st edition) states:

The name of the letter, now jay, was formerly jy, rhyming with I, and corresponding to French ji; this is still common in Scotland and elsewhere.

So there you have it! ?

As an Edinburger I always thought 'itch' for aitch was a Fife thing! Jye for jai is common round here though. My SiL was very confused by it all.
Who cares though? Who are the pronunciation police and who says they're right? People's pronunciation of words and sounds gives a lot of information about them. There's no right or wrong just people judging each other by their own standards which may or may not be particularly valid.

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Edinburghers pronounce it ‘itch’

I Scotland its the jai jye thing,Folk who have moved from other part of the UK dont know why we pronounce "j " as JYE .According to some its from the old french pronunciation Marydoll may know the answer ,it involves a Z .Lots of old scots words are attributed to our auld alliance past so it may well be true

There's an aitch in my postcode. Whenever I've to give it, I say aitch, they say A?, I say aitch again, they say Oh, you mean haitch! I've long ago given up.

It's really annoying . In N. Ireland only the Catholics say Haitch.Dont know the reason.

That was meant for inishowen

A bit of a sweeping statement.