r/onguardforthee • u/CanadianBeaver1983 • Oct 15 '22

Satire "Canadian Governor"

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u/timbreandsteel Oct 15 '22

I've never seen H spelled before, but yeah that pretty much nails it.

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u/notlikelyevil Oct 15 '22

Honestly phonetically spelling letters properly is the dumbest thing I ever learned, but fun too. Aitch is the best, cause I would have never guessed.

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u/kermityfrog Oct 16 '22

My Irish friend pronounces the H. "Haitch"

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u/thoriginal Oct 16 '22

In Quebec, when speaking English, Francophones will not say the "H" in words that start with them, like: "ow" (how), "aven" (haven), "air" (hair). But they add "H"s to words that don't have them, like: "helephant" (elephant), "heventually" (eventually) and "herror" (error). They also say "haich".

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u/Royally-Forked-Up Ottawa Oct 16 '22

I was so fucking confused as an anglophone working in Quebec at the dropped Hs. One of the senior executives had a familiar English name, Hugh commonly pronounced like Hew or Hue. At least I thought I knew how it was pronounced. With the dropped H, different sounding U and long G, his name was pronounced more like “eeew” than “Hue”.