First one.
Why, are you meeting Steps?
( Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:18, archived)

No, I've always wondered
all my friends pronounce it the second way and I wondered if that was the right one. If it was my world would spin off its axis.
( ArthurTheRat, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:21, archived)

I hate it when people pronounce it the wrong way

kids do it all the time coz their parents don't know

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:22, archived)

Or perhaps because socially it benefits them more to pronounce it that way?
Most people don't learn to speak the language of their parents alone, but pick and choose from an amalgamation of different influences to create an idiolect that most benefits them.
( Malchick, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:26, archived)

www.b3ta.com/talk/629452
( Hoohah Bibbly-bobbly-bubbly-snibbly wib-wib floppit., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:26, archived)

Oi!
*considerably more northern than Malchick*
Bloody southerners. Back in myyy day grumble grumble grumble
(Naughty Tortoise, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 12:12, archived)

Innit.

( Shoosh up your lips Not state-funded, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:27, archived)

Innit.
Just because it's socially beneficial to speak in a dialect, doesn't mean it's right, y'dickhead.

Edit: stop pissing on my mind.
( Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:28, archived)

Only if you take the prescriptivist view of language
which I normally do

/guilt

And it wouldn't be right for them to speak to us in their dialect because we're pedants, but for inter-chav conversation speaking Standard English (itself a dialect) would be wrong.
( Malchick, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:30, archived)

What?
The last bit of this message doesn't make any sense no matter how I rearrange it.
( Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:32, archived)

Done it for you.

( Malchick, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:34, archived)

Even rearragned I had to read it 4 times before I understood.
I'm obviously stoopid.
(MooCow_Byter, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:36, archived)

I think it's possible that I'm not saying what I mean very clearly...

( Malchick, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:38, archived)

I get it now, but I think you should use more commas.

( Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:47, archived)

Wha??

meh
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:33, archived)

but it still annoys me

and I was taught at school to pronounce it haich

bastards
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:29, archived)

Technically 'h' is pronounced
huh (like an exhale).
( Shoosh up your lips Not state-funded, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:30, archived)

That's the sound

he's refering to the letter name

/Jolly Phonics
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:31, archived)

I'm eating yoghurt.

( Shoosh up your lips Not state-funded, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:33, archived)

So am I.

( Malchick, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:35, archived)

Again

what flavour?
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:37, archived)

Your mum.
Lemon-Lime
( Malchick, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:38, archived)

Mullerlight?

I like that with digestives in it, but only a bit otherwise it's too zingy.
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:40, archived)

What flavour?

I'm hungry
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:35, archived)

It's the split pots,
Digestive chocolate bits :)
( Shoosh up your lips Not state-funded, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:39, archived)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

*whishes she had food in the house*

*HAs food but nothing she wants, you know that mood*
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:41, archived)

Your friends

are cunts
( diffy maybs, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:31, archived)