Mispronunciation

I have never heard of haitch or aitch?

I assume she means the letter 'h'? ( and i pronounce it with a h)

my pronunciation is bad. i can't say the words column or thailand. or so oh tells me anyway!

Yeah!

Ooooo ? I shall take myself back to bed I think!

So do you also say 'ospital and 'otel?

I say Haitch for H.

I struggle with Millenium unless I say it slowly. It comes out as Minnellium

That is one of mine too. (although I mispronounce most things because of my weird accent though!)

If you mean, when people just say the wrong word, these are a few examples where I have to bite my lip to stop myself correcting people:

"off your own back" instead of "off your own bat"

ballpart figure instead of ballpark figure.

My friend says "high insight" instead of hindsight.

I will think of more.

No.

Letters are pronounced differently when they're made into words. For example 'A' on it's own is pronouced differently to when it's used in 'also'.

"bled like a stuffed pig" instead of stuck pig. grrrr! lol

I can't say my 'th's'.

I think they are supposed to be silent in hospital and hotel though, I would say "an otel" rather than "a Hotel" but again, more to do with being a Stokey than saying it the correct way.

Should of rather than should have.

Or could / would / etc

YES! I hate that!

I'm imaging Panj using a dodgy French accent now!

Oh I hate that too.

Now I'm really confused and at the risk of exposing myself to be a complete bimbo, I always say 'haitch'. In fact, my initials are HH so I say it very often. I guess I am a plonker ?

I don't know how to word this... but how can you describe the letter without including the sound of the letter? I pronouce it 'haitch' because i'm talking about the letter H. ?

Ha ha ha, just think of me with a weirdo northern, scouse/manc/brummie accent instead, it will be far closer to the truth. I always drop my aitches.

I don't think you're that much of a plonker, pretty sure it's one of the most frequently mispronounced letters in the english language!

CB - watch this and hear me say "ees gorra wet edd" (translation, he's got a wet head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DGP5KHrGo

It is not usual to drop aitches from words like hospital or hotel, where the stress of the word in on the first syllable. It's more correct to drop them from words where the stress is not on the first e.g. historian.

For the record, I say "a hotel". I say "aitch". I say "a historian". In fact, I can't think of a time where I would use "an" in front of a word starting with "h" (whatever the correct rule is).

I do have a few, main one is AGGREVATE...which i pronouce AGGER-VERATE. Had toruble saying it as a chillen, and now i continue to do so ?

Your pronunciation of the letter is wrong. You see the letter 'H' and you've probably been taught that it's a "haitch", but it isn't, it's an "aitch".

As it's my job I hear the word secretary mispronounced a lot. Sec er tary.

Febery instead of February.

I must admit, I'm quite lazy with February and tend to say Feb-u-ary. I find it a bit of a struggle to put the r in the middle!

One that grind my gears is from when i lived in London....HOLBORN station/area has a silent L i was taught so its not HOLBORN but pronounced HOBON (londondes correct me if im wrong!)

Isn't language (and its evolution) fascinating? The mispronunication of "aitch" is only incorrect because historically, that's how it was pronounced. I have just read (Wiki, so possibly inaccurate) that the movement towards "haitch" was encouraged to remind people not to drop "aitches" from "hospital" and "hotel". Why do we not move on with these things?

I am never sure how almond should be pronounced. I say All-mond but I hear other people say ah-mond.

I say Hol-born, but then I am a little odd!

Like those who live in Clapham but want it to sound posher so say "Clahm darling"

Stevenage has become St Evenage in some of my friends circles ?

As for the H... I have just read this....

Silent H

H is not pronounced when following W. Some speakers whisper the H before the W.

what
when
where
whether
why

Silent H

H is not pronounced at the beginning of many words. Use the article "an" with unvoiced H. Here are some of the most common:

hour
honest
honor
heir
herb

Pronounced H

H is pronounced at the beginning of these common words. Use the article "a" with voiced H.

hill
history
height
happy
hangover

It's REALLY fascinating.

Apparently, English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Although it gets on my nerves, I can understand why people get confused by the whole too, to, two and there, they're, their thing.

I think apostrophies (that doesn't look like it's spelt right!!) only makes things harder because if people said "they are" instead of "they're" I'm convinced more people would get it right. Like with its and it's. If people only seperated the word to "it is", they would get it right!!!

The whole i before e is another thing and also silent letters like in the word 'psychology'.

Totally weird.

Yes. My ma ALWAYS picked me up on this as a child. Consequently it makes me cringe to hear it now.

A couple of years ago I drove through the town of Towecester and I thought it was pronounced "tow-ces-ter". It's actualy "toaster". Soooo weird!!

Ah yes, where the "h" is part of a vowel sound, I would use "an".