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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Ditto to this. We were always taught Haitch. It feels unnatural for me to pronounce it any other way.

*waits for someone to mention people who use "ditto"*
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:11, 1 reply)
It sounds like someone trying to sound posh,
which is a vulgar thing to do. You don't say 'hhhour' or 'hhhonest', do you? If someone spoke like that you'd think they were trying (and failing) to sound well-spoken.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:37, closed)

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