Now would be a good time to just accept you're wrong before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.
Poll: Pronouncing the letter 'H': hay-ch or ay-ch
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Now would be a good time to just accept you're wrong before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.
That's OK, it is far from the only one you have made
It is difficult to trust someone so wrong, especially when I know they are
Hark the Herald.
'ark the 'erald.
If it is silent how can you pronounce "H".
If what is silent? There is nothing silent.
It isn't difficult. If you are saying 'hark' then you pronounce the word /h'ɑːʳk/. However, if you are saying the letter 'h' it is pronounced /'eɪtʃ/.
No-one is saying the letter 'aitch' doesn't exist audibly in the English language, you great buffoon.
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Hark the Herald.
'ark the 'erald.
If it is silent how can you pronounce "H".
I'm not sure you're even understanding the discussion.
How you pronounce H on its own is entirely different to how it is used within a word.
That's OK, it is far from the only one you have made
It is difficult to trust someone so wrong, especially when I know they are
I know I am right and can admit when I am wrong.
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No it isn't.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think that the reason that ay-ch is the correct way, is because from time to time, H acts as a vowel. This probably comes from old english and modern european language.
In much the same way that in some european languages, y is a vowel.
Honour? Heir? Honest? Hour?
Yes, though the letter in question is used to form words in our languge and it has a sound.
I know I am right and can admit when I am wrong.
How can you be right when you don't even understand the question?
As krooton has pointed out, how do you pronounce the word heir?
This is still missing the point however, the way a letter is pronounced when on its own has little bearing on how it is pronounced within certain words.
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My Mum who was from NI told me that was how you could tell who was Roman Catholic!
They would say Haitch as in 'Haitch' block for example.
They would say Haitch as in 'Haitch' block for example.
I'm intrigued by this thread.
I personally (when reciting the alphabet) say "aitch", yet when I use the letter in a sentence I quite meticulously pronounce "haitch" BUT only when its appropriate ("Her's compared to Hour for example.)
What interests me is, for those being so adamant about "aitch", would you pronounce Here as "ere'" or correctly as "Here"?
I personally (when reciting the alphabet) say "aitch", yet when I use the letter in a sentence I quite meticulously pronounce "haitch" BUT only when its appropriate ("Her's compared to Hour for example.)
What interests me is, for those being so adamant about "aitch", would you pronounce Here as "ere'" or correctly as "Here"?
I do understand the question, "How do you pronounce the letter?". "H".
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Listen, please accept you're wrong.
C is pronounced see, but it becomes a hard sound in words like Can, you don't pronounce can "San", do you?
Y is pronounced wi, but you don't prounounce "yes" wyes, do you?
There are so many more examples to prove you wrong, but I hope this suffices
Then why do you keep giving examples of words the letter is using, instead of the letter standalone? Why do you keep talking about the letter being silent?