The letter H

[Jack's Smirking Revenge]

i hate alot

 

[Channizard]

Alot is a mystical creature of lore. But it's totally real.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

also, ayche

 

[AddleBoy]

I suppose that when people pronounce it as 'aych' it can make more sense when regarding that we're supposed to say 'an' in front of certain words beginning with H (an historian etc). Perhaps because in speech it can sound as if you're just starting with a vowel.
It can be complicated in speech to say HISTorian rather than ISTorian with an 'an' in front of it whereas with the latter it flows more easily.

That said, I'd always been taught / have thought of H as haych. Aych sounds like a badger chewing a mushroom.

It's actually really interesting if you study fast speech from a linguistic perspective. If you transcribe it, it really does look like a bunch of gibberish.


The thing is that alright and alot can become words if they are used enough in everyday language. It just takes time. There are plenty of phrases I'm sure all of you have used that are not proper English.


Also, I'd say it as EYCH.

 

[CassinoChips]

C'mon Addle. Next you'll try to tell us that bootylicious is in the dictionary.

 

[Tucker]

It's not a word anymore than alot is

I ALWAYS USE ALOT

I hate seeing that poor red line under it

 

[CassinoChips]

Alright, this is an all together silly thread all ready. There are alot in the Spam section.

 

[Will Graham]

it tuk mi a minit 2 get dat

 

[CassinoChips]

Mishun akomplushed.

 

[Will Graham]

Is it true that if a word is used X amount of times in published works it becomes a real word? I have heard that grrrl is now in the dictionary

 

[CassinoChips]

That would take an awful lot of counting.

 

[AddleBoy]

I'MMA CHARGIN' MAH GRAMMAR-HAMMER.