Sacha wrote in message .uk...
Kay Easton21/4/04 7:26

In article , Sacha
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Jane Ransom21/4/04 4:06


Oh certainly. But the letter H is the only letter of the alphabet that has
its own spelling and it is 'aitch' not 'Haitch'. ;-)

But 'haitch' is a regional thing, isn't it? West Midlands dialects. (you
must have heard a lot of it in your younger days!) Rather like 'ain't'.
And like 'It were' around here.


I don't remember it from my younger days but we didn't get out much. ;-)
To me, this is a fairly modern curse and seems to be all around us......

"Haitch" is pretty well the norm in Wales, even among highly-educated
speakers. And, by the way, some of the other letters do have
spellings: we have "em" and "en", as well as "zed", but I suppose
"double-u" is cheating!

Mike.