While we're on the subject of using the English language
It's not 'haitch', you tits! It's 'aitch'!

Sometimes h-rid can be rational...
( ousgg is not seeking approval, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 16:38, 4 replies)

And the opposite with the yanks
it's Herb not erb
( Peej, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 16:55, closed)

that confuses me almost as much as it enrages me
I notice when they call someone "Herb" short for Herbert they don't drop the H.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 16:56, closed)

Oh God this...
When did they start doing that?!
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 31 Mar 2011, 21:11, closed)

Heard someone who said En - Haitch - Ess the other day
I work for the NHS. So does this person. That's the first time I ever heard that one. I had to go out for a cigarette.

I always used to think that adding the H to aitch was just normal pretentious hypercorrection, and that it didn't matter because you never hear it in normal speech and phraseology where people are less self conscious (and the awesome innate language system in people's brains can just do its thing). But now, I think that haitch might actually creep into the vocabulary.

Just like pissing "til" instead of "till". Apparently "til" is acceptable now, because pretentious fuckwits thought that it was a contraction of "until" and hypercorrected, not realising that "till" was in the language long before we even started using "until".

Man, I love this qotw. I'm getting to vent all sorts of petty shit.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 15:46, closed)