Pronunciation Of The Letter H

Ah Americanese, where would we be without it?

“Try saying it out loud if you don’t follow”

I just did. Classic.:D

reminds me of this quote from anchorman

As this thread is now ranging wide can I just decry the use of the term anchor to describe some bloke/doxie sitting in a TV studio with a laptop or a sheaf of notes?

Actually on its own I can just about live with it, but I did once experience on US television a lip-glossed, fluff-head calling the bloke sitting next to her

“my co-anchor”

I could not believe what I had just heard and stared at the screen astonished

Then I disentangled what she had said from what it actually sounded like to my English ears.

Try saying it out loud if you don’t follow 😉

Moggy

I usually circumvent the irritation of “I’m good” (blame Ozzie soaps for that one) by asking “are you well?” it works.

You promise no one ever says “Yea, I’m good thanks!”…………

I didn’t know anyone still watched Aussie soaps.

Aitch it is for me too. What get’s my goat is when people mis-use an apostrophe. 😡 eg. My surname is Lewis so if I own something it’s Lewis’ not Lewis’s.

Tony.

Talking of the misuse of the apostrophe. I hate the fact that some people manage to confuse its and it’s. As a contraction of it is or it has then correct form is it’s. Possesive is its i.e the dog chewed its bone.
Thank you I’ll stop being so pedantic now.

Exactly so. I suspect it is in part due to the fact that children are now taught the alphabet by sounding the letter rather than saying it. They spell out a word phonetically and presumably “haitch” is the phonetic sound for the letter “h”.

I find it irritating and odd, because it has been “aitch” all of my life. But then I find much about modern speech forms and word usage irritating but that is due to age and the inevitable evolution of the language. I will fight for “aitch” but doubt that I will win in the long run.

The most recent irritation is as in this exchange:

” How are you today?”

” Oh, I’m good, thanks”.

Well perhaps you are good but are you well?:(:(:(

I usually circumvent the irritation of “I’m good” (blame Ozzie soaps for that one) by asking “are you well?” it works.

Well I used the letter Y so that you would understand. In reality it’s joulua, as j is spelled jii and y is spell yy

Vowels are a,e,i,o,u,y,ä,ö and are pronounced without need to move your mouth or tongue. And consonants, eg. the rest are what they are. In Finnish there isen’t vowels used as consonants as in english like Y or U…

ja like “ya”

Joulua like “youlua” weigth on the -lu spell

Exactly – just what I said originally. We have come full circle so I don’t think I can be bothered to go round again.:eek:

I dug this up, as it’s appropriate.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Definitely better than Lilly Allen

Moggy

Actually, quite dangerous to drive to! His skill at the langauage and of the intonation makes the hairs on the hairs on the back of your head stand up.

ja like “ya”

Joulua like “youlua” weigth on the -lu spell

No we pronounce j as j and y as y(it is a vowel after all:cool:);)
You guys just pronounce y as j and j as “tse”

How do you pronounce “ja” and “joulua”? We pronounce “y” as “ye”, as it is spelt. And “j” more as “dzay”.

This thread gets better by the hour.:D

hehhe silly englanders…in here H is pronounced H…like every other letter as for that matter, pronounced like written. Makes life alot easier:rolleyes:

Plural shood be Engländer vizzout an “s” et ze end:diablo:

No we pronounce j as j and y as y(it is a vowel after all:cool:);)
You guys just pronounce y as j and j as “tse”

But you pronounce “j” as “y”……….;)

reminds me of this quote from anchorman

Ron Burgundy: Oop… I almost forgot. I won’t be able to make it fellas. Veronica and I trying this new fad called uh, jogging. I believe it’s jogging or yogging. it might be a soft j. I’m not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It’s supposed to be wild.

hehhe silly englanders…in here H is pronounced H…like every other letter as for that matter, pronounced like written. Makes life alot easier:rolleyes:

But you pronounce “j” as “y”……….;)

hehhe silly englanders…in here H is pronounced H…like every other letter as for that matter, pronounced like written. Makes life alot easier:rolleyes:

I’ve just heard Winston Churchill CD

Definitely better than Lilly Allen

Moggy

“The failing problem of democracy is that the thick outvote the wise so it is now acceptable to end a statement with innit.”

That’s a memorable statement, Old Shape! And it so neatly encapsulates the tenor of several recent threads.

I suppose you could disenfranchise the thick………:diablo: