Why do Aussies pronounce H as "haitch" instead "aitch"?

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bassfreak wrote:
nic wrote:its like bassfreak is trying to impart otherwordly knowledge upon the peasants of melbourne

HEAR YE, HEAR YE - I BASSFREAK, TEH INTELLECTUAL GIANT OF N.Z AM HERE TO SPEAK TO YE ON A SUBJECT CLOSE TO MY HEART, THAT OF TEH ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT FOOLS AND PEASANTS OF THIS POOR LAND ARE ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE.
Bloody peasants. I hate you all! I'm off to sulk in the corner of my office, never to return to melbournebeats again........... your all too intelligent for me anyway :mrgreen:
see if you had come to rainbow serpent, people on here would be far less superior than you, but you didn't :teef:
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quick wrote:
bassfreak wrote:
nic wrote:its like bassfreak is trying to impart otherwordly knowledge upon the peasants of melbourne

HEAR YE, HEAR YE - I BASSFREAK, TEH INTELLECTUAL GIANT OF N.Z AM HERE TO SPEAK TO YE ON A SUBJECT CLOSE TO MY HEART, THAT OF TEH ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT FOOLS AND PEASANTS OF THIS POOR LAND ARE ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE.
Bloody peasants. I hate you all! I'm off to sulk in the corner of my office, never to return to melbournebeats again........... your all too intelligent for me anyway :mrgreen:
see if you had come to rainbow serpent, people on here would be far less superior than you, but you didn't :teef:
I think I'm superior and that's all that matters. Royal Doof will be much better anyway!
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bassfreak wrote:
quick wrote:
bassfreak wrote: Bloody peasants. I hate you all! I'm off to sulk in the corner of my office, never to return to melbournebeats again........... your all too intelligent for me anyway :mrgreen:
see if you had come to rainbow serpent, people on here would be far less superior than you, but you didn't :teef:
I think I'm superior and that's all that matters. Royal Doof will be much better anyway!
enough with your outrageous unsubstantiated claims... i say ENOUGH!!!
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has Sam Newman been reading MB.com?
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bassfreak wrote:I think I'm superior and that's all that matters. Royal Doof will be much better anyway!
haha, i saw flyers for that at the printing place today ... good times.
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i think speaking properly is important, i know i abuse the english language now and then but definitely not at work, you just wouldn't be taken seriously when putting opinions or ideas across. i don't get this whole haitch and aitch argument, but saying words like 'youse' is terrible (and Quick i don't think i have ever heard you say it as i would have said something). i don't think people are being all uppity about having a problem with pointing out things that people say that annoys them, its an opinion! And probably stems from being taught at home or school, to speak properly! It goes hand in hand with saying please and thank you and being respectful of others and your elders i think.

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quick wrote:
bassfreak wrote:
nic wrote:its like bassfreak is trying to impart otherwordly knowledge upon the peasants of melbourne

HEAR YE, HEAR YE - I BASSFREAK, TEH INTELLECTUAL GIANT OF N.Z AM HERE TO SPEAK TO YE ON A SUBJECT CLOSE TO MY HEART, THAT OF TEH ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT FOOLS AND PEASANTS OF THIS POOR LAND ARE ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE.
Bloody peasants. I hate you all! I'm off to sulk in the corner of my office, never to return to melbournebeats again........... your all too intelligent for me anyway :mrgreen:
see if you had come to rainbow serpent, people on here would be far less superior than you, but you didn't :teef:
You're both disgusting hippes. Have a shower ffs.
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bassfreak wrote: your all too intelligent for me anyway :mrgreen:
lol. fail.
correct grammar ought to be used when arguing about language imo.

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ghey thread tbh.
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lol power owned
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if you dont say HAITCH then blreghhh
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arrggghhh racial thread from the dead
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thread = dead to me
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flippo wrote:lol power owned
hmmm, maybe you should read her post again.
witty_pseudonym wrote:
bassfreak wrote: your all too intelligent for me anyway :mrgreen:
lol. fail.
correct grammar ought to be used when arguing about language imo.

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ghey thread tbh.
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speak fer yourself. I pronounce it as "aitch".
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we have a wiener...
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quick wrote:we have a wiener...
And that indeed be you, Quick. :smt003
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DIE THREAD DIE!!!
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quick wrote:we have a wiener...
yeah right mate...
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Expert Knob Twiddler wrote:
quick wrote:we have a wiener...
yeah right mate...

ah fuck that made me laugh... :lol: :lol: :lol:
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are you serious? whats your prob dude?
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lol
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he-he..........you dudes are mad, in half decent cool way. LOL.
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nice :)
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Great to see you guys kissed and made up! :smt003
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oooo controversy, here is Direkts opinion of the matter in 2009
Direkt wrote:
DBoy wrote:If you get the point across you have succussed in communicating. I do not care how it sounds or what form it takes.
I believe trying to hold onto any “pure” or ”correct” form of a language is outdated.
That is kind of the point of having a "pure" and "correct" form of language mate.

Puts everyone on the same page so we can all succeed in communicating.
Interesting....back in 2005 though....
Direkt wrote:okay... so is it Heroin or Eroin... :lol:

Word... down with the aristocrats and french-fuckers changing our good ol' English language.... Haitch it has been, and Haitch it will be!

Fuck the dictionary, whadda ya reckon BRB - we'll start the Haitch movement... :smt068

And it's precisely coz of uppity bitches like the Queen and your good self that I stick by my guns. I know its supposed to be Aitch, I know we're taught that in school - but fuck it - they're wrong...

word... I'm strictly Haitch... I mean face it, the letter is a H - stands to reason it should sound like a 'Ha' type sound...
you been going to school lately or something? :lol:
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:lol:

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:lol:

Hey, that was 4-years ago! People change.

Just like you've changed Al... into a stalker. :wink:
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:D mesmerizing innit
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yes.
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I like it so much.

I've been stuck looking at it since I first opened the thread four hours ago
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Try 10.58 this morning.

my hand is getting sore.

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MUST... NOT... FAP... AT ... DESK!!!!!!
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hahahaha!

Sup Phatman!
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Col Kickin Holmes....

Just watching al's signature......
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:lol:

beautiful story that
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long thread..

the thing that weirds me out about australians use of the letter H is when saying something like "an historic" but.. really emphasising the h... i see it on the news all the time.. they think it is correct to use an before a soft sound, but make the h really hard...

maybe because writing it down seems ok, and maybe the person who wrote it doesn't really pronounce the h.. but the newsreader does..

it annoys me sometimes..
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He he he he...oh yeah!
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