The mispronunciation of the letter "H."
It's called "aitch." If you call it "haitch," you're a fucking spastic.

I really don't know why this one annoys me so much...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:01, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Nothing unnatural about getting annoyed by imbeciles.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:02, Reply)

Somebody suggested to me last night
that there's a finite amount of intelligence in the world...and the population's getting bigger.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:04, Reply)

Well that's a specious fucking thought isn't it?

(PsychoChomp, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Haitch can be correct and is taught in catholic schools.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:09, Reply)

My point was about the intelligence in the world.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:09, Reply)

I was replying to the original post.
Shall we go on stating the obvious?

EDIT: *learns to type*
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:11, Reply)

on the same side five!

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:10, Reply)

Along with the concept of original sin and some nonsense about an imaginary being.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:10, Reply)

Yeah lets keep stating the obvious.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:13, Reply)

OK.
Catholics are not very enlightened individuals who are responsible for the suffering of thousands of children. By abusing them into saying Haitch.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:15, Reply)

Cos being Catholic is a sure sign that you know what's what.
As much as it pains me to say it, because it drives me fucking insane, apparenly 'haitch' is how it is said in some Irish dialects though.

It's still fucking wrong though. And schools do teach wrong things. I was one of many people taught that it is spelt 'Dilemna', even though no such word exists in any dictionary.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:17, Reply)

I am only really talking about how they teach English.
We know that they're not to be trusted.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:18, Reply)

Sorry. I was busy updating that and got sidetracked reading a BBC article about it.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:20, Reply)

Hold on, I just read you were taught "dilemna"?
WTF? Are you sure?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:24, Reply)

Yup.
And I am very far from alone.

It's a common(ish) thing apparently. I spent ages reading up about it in disbelief just a few weeks ago when I discovered it was wrong.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:25, Reply)

That's staggernring.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:26, Reply)

I know.
Bunt I really amn very far fromn alomne. Do a quick google of 'Dilemna vs Dilemma'.

Here's just one e.g.:

grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-it-dilemma-or-dilemna.aspx
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:28, Reply)

have you been drinking? your spellign is awfult oday

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:31, Reply)

Bollocks is it.
Did you go to school in Donegal or somewhere equally backward?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:29, Reply)

Yes.
Essex.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:30, Reply)

I went to a Catholic school and know full well that it is 'aitch'.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:35, Reply)

I reckon illegal immigrants have stolen all the intelligence along with the signal wire from the rail network.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:10, Reply)

and they've been stealing all the pot and putting thoughts in your head

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:12, Reply)

the real problem ispeople thinking they have a bigger share of intelligence than they actually have
there are some peachy examples on the fail website, the guardian, the bbc... even on here. provincial little pricks who've never escaped their hometowns other than to scrape shit degrees from shit universities somehow think they are qualified to comment on world politics, economies, celebrity boob jobs... the arrogance and the self-delusion is literally mind-blowing.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:30, Reply)

i agree

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:35, Reply)

fucking hell, that's two nice posts in a day
call me fat and ugly, quick. my equilibrium can't take it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:38, Reply)

i bet your dressed dead smart and look lovely today

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:43, Reply)

ah sweet sarcasm
how i missed you
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:43, Reply)

i was sincere :(
i look like a scruffbag today
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:44, Reply)

i have a meeting later
so i am super-smart.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:51, Reply)

also
ITS FRIDAY
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:54, Reply)

to be fair tho, it should have an 'h' sound in it to show what sound it makes
you don't call 'C' curly cuh anymore, do you?
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:06, Reply)

You're a 'cuh'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:07, Reply)

yeah well your a curly unt

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:08, Reply)

I heard that the "haitch" pronunciation was introduced to help the thick kids
So it is perfectly reasonable to assume that those using it were one of the thick kids.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:08, Reply)

true but rationally haitch makes more sense than aitch
thats like calling W 'ooh'
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:09, Reply)

It is all about Synthetic Phonics these days, Quento

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:13, Reply)

what the hell is that?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:16, Reply)

It's like Mazuma.com
They recycle your old mobiles.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:18, Reply)

cool thanks

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:28, Reply)

You learn what letters and groups of letters sound like rather than their names.
Kids learn to read much quicker.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:19, Reply)

thats my point

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:22, Reply)

My daughter is learning to read this way, I believe.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:22, Reply)

so i was right
thank you both
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:23, Reply)

No you weren't

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:33, Reply)

obviously i was

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:34, Reply)

Micro shambles has been copying mini shambles
so her first phrases were "more book" "à table" and "puh puh pin"
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:17, Reply)

It's an 'aitch'. Deal with it

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:36, Reply)

YOU CAN'T CHANGE ME

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:37, Reply)

I CAN

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:39, Reply)

alright i'll call it aitch

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:41, Reply)

It does have an 'h' sound in it.
The 'h' sound used to be strongly aspirated in Germanic languages.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:13, Reply)

yeah but it should be at the start so you know its a 'huh' sound
people who go 'AAARGH LANGUAGE SHOULDN'T CHAGE IT SHOULD BE THE SAME IT ALWAYS WAS' they're the thickos
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:15, Reply)

You mean like A, C, F, G, I, L, M, N, Q, R, S, W, X and Y?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:18, Reply)

yeah A sounds like a, c has cee and cuh sounds
f has an eff sound etc, so h should be proununced with a 'huh'
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:21, Reply)

What are you bibbling on about?
If you want a phonetic alphabet then all those letters are named wrongly.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:26, Reply)

all those letters sound like how they're called in some words

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:27, Reply)

Are you a retard?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:28, Reply)

are you arguing with one?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:30, Reply)

You seem not to understand the difference between dispute and edification.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:32, Reply)

you seem not to understand the difference between
'pretentious arsehole using big words to sound clever' and 'guy dfeliberately winding you up'
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:33, Reply)

You seem to have fat fingers.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:36, Reply)

you seem to have a fat head

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:41, Reply)

I don't even fit into normal hats.
:(
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:23, Reply)

ZING

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:21, Reply)

It is pronounced 'Zed', you idiot.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:23, Reply)

It's "zee" actually.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:24, Reply)

neil before Zee!

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:25, Reply)

Zed is to zee as Zod must be to ?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:27, Reply)

zooey deschanel?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:28, Reply)

Bloody Septics.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:26, Reply)

If you're a complete cunt.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:26, Reply)

he has a point, in what word is the letter 'z'
prounounced with a 'd' on the end?
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:26, Reply)

Ownership of a language can be said to go to those with the largest number of users.
Just saying.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:28, Reply)

India then.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:29, Reply)

in the police they call it indigo

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:29, Reply)

Fair point.
But by any measure, not the English.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:30, Reply)

India predominantly uses British English.
With a small number of exceptions, most second-language English is British English. Yankish is outnumbered about five to one.

Roosevelt's attempts to simplify English for the dimwits of the colonies was arguably a good idea. But he lost.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:34, Reply)

yeah but at least he prounced z right

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:35, Reply)

You probably want a cup of tea.
There's a whiff of "taking the internet too seriously" rising from your last few posts.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:37, Reply)

are you sure?
cos i call it aitch, always have
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:42, Reply)

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:42, Reply)

lol

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:43, Reply)

If that is so
then your mum's cunt must own every language on earth.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:30, Reply)

That doesn't even make sense.
I would have said something like "using that logic your mum's cunt owns the rights to the human penis".

human
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:32, Reply)

Yeah?
Well, I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:41, Reply)

THIS TO THE MAXIMUM

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:34, Reply)

This irks me also.
As someone (here I believe) once pointed out, you don't pronounce "W" as "wubble-woo"
(TheColonel, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:38, Reply)