Barbersmith on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Most of them can't recognise letters, let alone pronounce them. Apart from the golden arches, which are pronounced 'Makdolds'.
Razorjaw on Wed 04 June 2008 said... I don't think there's an age restriction on this one. I've heard old twats say it too.
ThinLizzy on Wed 04 June 2008 said... And there is a 't' in cunt
Hieronymous on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Irritating in the extreme. What also really gets me is 'ahks'. It's 'ask' you ignorant motherfucker. Are you purposely trying to foster some kind of 'cool' dyslexia? Fucking sort it out. Cunts.
ebonynorks on Wed 04 June 2008 said... I say 'haitch', but so do most people in Northern ireland. We must all be ignorant together. Though in fairness with jo whiley, the daily mail and gloria hunniford all still about this really isnt that big in the grand scheme of things
milkplus on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Also, if you have to let me know about the summer holiday you are literally bursting with excitement about, tell me you're going TO Cyprus, not 'I'm going Cyprus' unless you want to be strutting around ayia napa with a fat lip
littleleopard82 on Wed 04 June 2008 said... the water in majorca don't taste like it oughta
HeroicDose on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Ebony, I'd have to disagree. I don't think I know anyone in N Ireland that says that. But I do come from a snobbier bit (if that is at all possible). And I'm deaf.
BarryTook on Wed 04 June 2008 said... There is no K in the word nothing as well.
SukieBapswent on Wed 04 June 2008 said... barbersmith, i think you'll find that they can't even do that. Round here it seems to be called mackydees.
ebonynorks on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Cherryvalley heroic?
I must be from the common end of town
littleleopard82 on Wed 04 June 2008 said... i am also a hater of the ahks , when chelsea says it in rearenders it makes my blood boil
ebonynorks on Wed 04 June 2008 said... People who say 'seveneen' instead of 'seventeen', and 'free' instead of 'three' also get on my tits
ThinLizzy on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Fucks me off when people say 'somethink' instead of something -- makes me wanna ram COD down their throat
dandyboy on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Akhs instead of ask is the one that makes me want to stick nails in people. And in the bit of Ireland I come from it was always haitch and not aitch. Makes sense as it's got a haitch in it.
Kitty on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Yeah I hate "arks" instead of "ask", it makes me stabby.
CUNTFROTH on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Ebony and Heroic - we both know the pronunciation of said letter is how one traditionally gave away which 'side' you were on - I've even faked it in certain company to avoid a kicking! Still, glad all that shite's over.
tigerstail on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Right on Milkplus - and the low rent twats who go to Dom Rep
ribena on Wed 04 June 2008 said... we say "haitch" in north east scotchland. clearly the op comes from england, a country with no concept of people speaking in a different way to themselves. as well as most of the posters who should realise that there is, in fact, no such thing as correct english, only snobby cunt english.
merf on Wed 04 June 2008 said... its not just the number of peasants who say haitch but the number who justify it with 'the sound must begin with a H so must be said haitch', well you numb nuts don't say wubble woo do you ? Plus the Germans are all taught to say aitch at school and they speak English properly.
ooooohblondie on Wed 04 June 2008 said... yeah. and it's specific, not pacific. you buffoons.
redexile on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Likewise, it's 'these' and 'those', not 'these ones' and 'those ones'. And you can't 'get' a coffee or a sandwich either. That's the job of the person who's serving you. Grrrrrr.......... Stab! Stab! Stab!
philrange on Wed 04 June 2008 said... i have recently encountered people who not only speak like that, but actually type out words like "sumfink" and "dat"
a friendly line of questioning offers nothing more than a "dunno, lol" from them, and the incredible urge to maim from me.
Xiano on Wed 04 June 2008 said... It's actually Aitch you ignorant twat. People that say Haitch are fuckwits who learnt to say 'huh' in the baby alphabet and then took that 'huh' and stuck it on the from of 'aitch' in the adult pronunciation.
Hieronymous on Wed 04 June 2008 said... Finally an appropriate place for an outpouring of the communal syntactic, grammatical and English usage anger that is pent up in HM. It's like lancing a boil.
dandyboy on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Possessive apostrophe rampage come on!
Dollydagger on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Merf, your wubble woo just made me really laugh.
dandyboy on Thu 05 June 2008 said... http://newsbiscuit.com/article/police-to-stop-motorists-for-random-accent-checks-236
LICKER on Thu 05 June 2008 said... 'Haitch' is one of my pet hates, but so is using a question mark at the end of a statement, saying 'should of', 'ect' instead of etc, 'seckerterry', 'cystificates', adverTISEment, 'says' (pronounced like 'days'), ALL web and textspeek acronyms and the most base and crudlike of all ... the Yorkshireman's insistence on saying 'expertee' instead of expertise. All these misspellings and mispronunciations are utter, utter cunts. CUNTS CUNTS CUNTS. lolx
DeckerJnr on Thu 05 June 2008 said... I'm in the privileged position of deciding who gets a job and who doesn't... Any fucker that has spelling mistakes on their CV, says 'haitch' or 'sumfink' or 'blud' in an interview DOES NOT GET THE CUNTING JOB. I'm finally in a position of power and I'm abusing the fuck out of it. Learn how to speak or go get the application form from mackydees.
thegirlwho on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Am I being a bit thick here .... if you are saying its Aitch instead of Haitch - do you say 'ello instead of Hello??
HeroicDose on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Licker, I am yet again forced to mention the people who say Eksetera. It's et, et fucking cetera, you fucking nematodes.
thegirlwho on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Thanks SOTC - thought so .... !
Adding to this list though is one I get quite often from a dopey cow I work for - yes work for - would you believe .... she uses 'accept' instead of 'except' in emails ... now she my fellow friends is a thicko
ciderwithrosie on Thu 05 June 2008 said... methinks haitch is a norn iron thing. is it racist of me to suggest that axe is a black thing?
McCrack on Thu 05 June 2008 said... To be fair STEPS arent that well known to the younger kids
LICKER on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Heroic, far be it from me to suggest any laxity in your erudite presentations, but I believe the plural of nematode is nematoda (reference Karl Diesing, helminthologist, 1800-1867). Get it right, you worm-eaten ratbag.
beatnut on Thu 05 June 2008 said... have you heard people call texts... 'texes' cunts
Dollydagger on Thu 05 June 2008 said... It's the early nematode that gets birds.
MerylHighground on Thu 05 June 2008 said... cider, axe is indeed a black thing - but more usually a 'white offspring of middle class hippies living in Hackney' thing, where the kids are simply trying to show respec to their bredren
HeroicDose on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Licker, it would be if I was making reference to the taxonomic phylum. But I wasn't.
philrange on Thu 05 June 2008 said... the comparison of aitch/haitch with ello/hello is retarded, seeing as aitch is a word starting with an 'a', hello is a word starting with an 'h' and the other two are not words.
to use a similar, but correct, analogy; saying aitch as 'haitch' is like saying ambulance as 'hambulance'
philrange on Thu 05 June 2008 said... also, it's not an age related thing, the 'under 20' mentioned by the OP refers to IQ. i have no explanation of why young people are getting stupiderer though.
merf on Thu 05 June 2008 said... also to add the list is fucktards who call these '*' asterixes, he's a small fictional character from Gaul who liked duffing up Romans after getting a good dose of potion off Getafix the druid.
LICKER on Thu 05 June 2008 said... Heroic: you filthy beast.
Just thought of two other all-time annoyances - people who call Scalextric, 'scalectrix' and Mitsubishi, 'mitserbooshi'
thegirlwho on Fri 06 June 2008 said... In fairness we don't pronounce the letter F as "feff" because it makes a fuh sound do we so I guess the wubble woo and feff argue that aitch is aitch and not haitch???
twosheds on Fri 06 June 2008 said...
texes arrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhh
ooooohblondie on Fri 06 June 2008 said... and it's mirror, not mirrow. twats.
LICKER on Fri 06 June 2008 said... Bastard yanks pronounce it 'mee-yah' ... words escape me .. what utter fucking front-bottoms they are over there.
blaxa on Thu 12 June 2008 said... Can I mention again just how much I hate when people say 'yourselves/self' instead of 'you'? YOURSELF IS A REFLEXIVE FORM! YOU ARE NOT TALKING TO MYSELF, YOU ARE TALKING TO ME! Thank you for understanding.
