How do you pronounce the letter "H" when it stands alone?

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How do you pronounce the letter H when it stands alone?

The letter "H" is said in many different ways, depending on where you are in the world.

Tellus, how do you pronounce the letter "H"?

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TadCurious Follow
Master Age: 37

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I pronounce it "ayche." H is a consonant with a vowel pronunciation as a standalone letter. But interestingly it can sound as a consonant or a vowel as the first letter of words. It sounds as a consonant in "hairy," for example, but as a vowel in "honor."

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Gremlinimo Follow
Xper 4 Age: 53 , mho 64%

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The letter is spelled "Aitch", at least in UK English. We pronounce it as "aitch".
If we give it an indefinite article it is "an" ... as in "The word HOTEL starts with an aitch"
Silly language, innit?

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Amy10223 Follow
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How do you say the sound? It's /h/ as in hat.
The letter name itself is said: long /a/. and the dipgraph /ch/.

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  Tom, please see my message. :D
  
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Snsl153 Follow
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Haytch, option 2, "British English". Australians don't pronounce H that way.

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MTC29 Follow
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My Bulgarian and Ukrainian friends will pronounce that letter as En, because in the Cyrillic Alphabet it represents the Latin letter N.

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- Cubus
  
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  Yeah, that's right.
  
  I'm not sure if it's in all languages that use cyryllic, but I've been to Bulgaria and I am learning Russian and in both it is, so I guess it's universal.
  
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MCheetah Follow
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Aetch, option A.
Like Triple H. HHH taking over WWE now that Vince McMahon's sex scandals have caught up with him.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hm18u3prkOg

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dustybiker Follow
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My mind often bounces back to my first accent and current neutral one. Depends how tired or distracted I am.

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Most people in Britain I've heard sound like the American ay tch. I think there's an East West divide

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I am 100% American so why would I pronounce it any way other than the American way?

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WonderBell99 Follow
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“Hay-tch” British English.

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exitseven Follow
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I say A but I knew somebody who was B.

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Cubus Follow
Yoda Age: 23

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Like in "hit"

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Blackcosmo Follow
Yoda Age: 16 , mho 38%

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Ay-tch (American English)

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NathanDavis Follow
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" ache " in Spanish

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alice55 Follow
Master Age: 27

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French way cause I'm French

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RedThread Follow
Master Age: 36

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HHHHHHHHHHAAAAA

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mandyfire98 Follow
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Ay-tch

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