What is it that really gets on your nerves.
In most things I am pretty even tempered and can tolerate all sorts of things, but one of my pet hates is when people mispronounce certain words or letters.
I can tolerate it when people say skedule instead of shedule (schedule) or put the emphasis on the wrong syllable of certain words such as harassment.
But the one thing that really gets on my tits is when people, especially teachers at my children's schools who should know better cannot properly pronounce a simple letter like H.
Now, I understand that pronunciation changes over the years (That's pronunciation and not pronounciation) but this is not a case of that.
The letter H (aitch) is a soft and gentle letter and certainly every dictionary that I have ever looked at spells it this way. On the other hand, the letter H (haitch) is a bastardisation of this letter brought over by the catholic Irish wishing to show that they were not Protestant.
Also, it sounds so unintelligent and ugly and it makes my skin crawl when I hear people say N haitch S or haitch D TV. Why do people do this? After all, you wouldn't say F (fef), L (lel), N (nen), S (ses) so why say haitch?
Look haitch up in a decent dictionary and it will be conspicuous by its absence.
That's my rant.
In most things I am pretty even tempered and can tolerate all sorts of things, but one of my pet hates is when people mispronounce certain words or letters.
I can tolerate it when people say skedule instead of shedule (schedule) or put the emphasis on the wrong syllable of certain words such as harassment.
But the one thing that really gets on my tits is when people, especially teachers at my children's schools who should know better cannot properly pronounce a simple letter like H.
Now, I understand that pronunciation changes over the years (That's pronunciation and not pronounciation) but this is not a case of that.
The letter H (aitch) is a soft and gentle letter and certainly every dictionary that I have ever looked at spells it this way. On the other hand, the letter H (haitch) is a bastardisation of this letter brought over by the catholic Irish wishing to show that they were not Protestant.
Also, it sounds so unintelligent and ugly and it makes my skin crawl when I hear people say N haitch S or haitch D TV. Why do people do this? After all, you wouldn't say F (fef), L (lel), N (nen), S (ses) so why say haitch?
Look haitch up in a decent dictionary and it will be conspicuous by its absence.
That's my rant.
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