This has probably...
...been mentioned by now (12 pages...already? I haven't had a chance to read them all yet, but we seem to think a lot of things are common)

But...please, for the love of all that is holy and good...

...it's 'Aitch'.

Got that? 'Aitch'

It may be hard to get your tiny little brain round, but the letter H is not, never has been and never will be pronounced ‘Haitch’ and saying it that way makes you sound like the chavviest of chavvy Croyden pramfaced WKD drinking morons.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:01, 15 replies)

Oh christ
I had a mate in school who was the hugest Hyacinth Bucket-esque snob (for instance, one time he threw a cupboardful of Kwik Save No Frills beans/tomatoes/etc in the bin because they 'weren't Heinz' - luckily he bucked his ideas up once he hit puberty.. I digress). And he prounounced H as "haitch". And would imply that I was very common for pronouncing it "aitch". Of course, with us both coming from the same crappy Liverpool overspill town, we were both common as muck, something he obviously wished he wasn't.

I think he thought it made him sound cultured. It just made him sound like a tit.
(No offenc - not to be confused with no_offenc, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:05, closed)

In these parts
it's often pronounced 'itch'. I was well through primary school before I realised the correct pronunciation.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:20, closed)

I was...
taught in school that it should be 'Haitch' and it was common to pronounce it 'Aitch'. I am confused now.
( VandenPlas can't think of anything clever - no change there!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:27, closed)

Schooling
Did you go to a catholic school by any chance?

Cos I just looked this up and apparently in Ireland, it is taught as 'aitch' in protestant schools and 'Haitch' in Catholic.

So I appear to have just branded all Irish Catholics as common. That may not have been my wisest move.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:45, closed)

No
Just a regular non-religous school.

Also in addition to Sahara Desert's post below, my husband pronounces it as 'Haitch' but with a soft H at the beginning. He's from Portsmouth way.
( VandenPlas can't think of anything clever - no change there!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:19, closed)

Portsmouth?
I'm trying to restrain from commenting, being from the other end of the M27... (!)
(Sahara Desert http://www.twitter.com/thesaharadesert for swears, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:17, closed)

.
You've also just branded most of Hampshire as common too. I've a softened RP accent, and I hate to break it to you, but it's "haitch".
(Sahara Desert http://www.twitter.com/thesaharadesert for swears, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:48, closed)

Burn in hell!
It fuckin' isn't!
(ShitBitch, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:02, closed)

.
sorry but its not. look it up in a dictionary.
(Lionel Tiger, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 21:39, closed)

*belms*
It should be pronounced 'Huh'.
( Moey, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:50, closed)

Does it
fucking matter

Really? Does it fuck
(Commander Cool, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:50, closed)

In the overall scheme of things
No.

But as the question was asked, I happen to think its common.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:53, closed)

what about
Haiy-ch?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:06, closed)

Haitch isn't a word.
Aitch is a word. It doesn't begin with an 'H', any more than (say) 'eff' begins with an 'F'.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:31, closed)

You mean to say
'eff' doesn't have a silent 'f' at the start.

To think I've been pronouncing it wrong all this time.
( Moey, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:38, closed)