| My mum would underline the letter aitch if someone applied for a job and outed themselves as a haitcher. |
| The only words in the book spelt with an aitch are his name Haigh, and the town Huddersfield, which of course are pronounced Aigh and Uddersfleld. |
| All the dictionaries in my house agree that aitch is correct. |
| Note, too, the dropped aitch, the casual obscenity and quasi-cockney rhyming slang. |
| Thank Heaven, his tongue was almost virgin to the aitch in Harden. |
| My then embarrassment has continued to embarrass me for decades: how restricted it was, both by class and convention, and how readily it responded to a dropped aitch or a harmless social gaffe. |
