12.2.20 HS2 - Get It Right

I seem to find myself listening regularly to arseholes on the radio who have trouble with the letter 'H'.  So severe is the level of fuckwittery that I feel obliged to highlight the matter now.

Consider the sentences below:

a)   I hate ham sandwiches.

b)   I ate ham sandwiches.

In the first, it is made quite clear that I dislike ham sandwiches, and so it is hardly probably that I would eat them under any circumstances.  In the second sentence, there is no view expressed regarding the liking or disliking of this food, but instead, a simple declaration (though without any notion of when) that I consumed some.  The meanings are so radically different, all because of the 'h' that appears in sentence a) as the second letter, while it is missing in sentence b).

Assuming there is no southern accent in play, where the letter 'h' is commonly dropped, we can distinguish rather easily between the word 'hate' requiring the expulsion of a light breath to capture the 'h', and the word 'ate' that needs no such effort. 

Now we must compare this with the word 'aitch'.  You will notice there is no 'h' at the beginning.  As a result, the pronunciation is identical to that of 'ate' in the first part.  Actually, if the 'ch' sound were added to ate, to form ate-ch it would be the same to the ear.  The eighth letter of the alphabet is H, spelled aitch, so it does not start with a fucking H!

Cunts in the media who cannot pronounce HS2 should NOT be commenting on it, period.  Get off the airwaves and off the TV, and fucking learn how to speak. 

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