atw: Re: Haitch or Aitch?
- From: Kirsty Taylor <kirsty.taylor@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:13:06 -0800
I switch between aitch and haitch, so I can’t help you Rob. ☹
I think the “Australian Catholic school pronunciation” thing is less about the
religion or schools themselves, and more about the likelihood in earlier
generations that Catholic schools would have Irish nuns and priests among the
teachers teaching the children.
But I could have it wrong. By the time I got to my 12 years of Catholic convent
schooling, I only had one Irish-born nun as a teacher, and that was only in
primary school.
KT
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Silcock
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:05 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Haitch or Aitch?
I've been told that 'haitch' is mostly used by Australians who went to Catholic
schools. My wife went to an Australian non-Catholic school and was explicitly
warned *against* saying 'haitch'. My own experience may not be relevant as I
didn't go to school in Australia (though I *did* go to a non-Catholic school
and have always said 'aitch').
Does this really come down to religion?
Howard
On 5 January 2012 12:47, Robert Levy
<robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I’m editing a doc where the writer referred to “a HTML file.”
Both haitch and aitch pronunciations are permitted in Macquarie (though haitch
is first). This has probably come up many times on this list, but I don’t
remember it…
The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage says that a survey in 2000
found that: “43% of younger people (under 25 years) were prepared to say that
they used “haitch”, but only 6% of those 65 and over.”
Any thoughts?
rwl
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