In article , Sacha
writes

They even *pronounce* it 'mute'!

Perhaps they also says "Haitch". ;-) Just a small personal bugbear.

Eeee . . wot's in pronunciation.

Up here we have a place called Claughton pronounced Clafton and a place
called Quernmore pronounced Kwormer.

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