Things that make me giggle

I had this problem a lot when I worked in HR and I had to look up people's files.  H's on names would get dropped, or when I had to take a NIN and defining between h and 8 was important.  I was at the point that I preferred when they used haitch because it enunciated it a lot more for me when on the phone.  I've even used it a couple of times, when people weren't understanding what I was spelling. 

I say haitch now when I'm spelling out something over the phone. It just makes things easier.

I've also begun using the military alphabet when saying things like my postcode. The last letters are PT and it's just easier to say papa tango rather than repeat myself over and over. I never used the military alphabet before I moved here (didn't even know all of them) and it still gives confuses me momentarily when people use it on me but I find it really helpful, especially over the phone.

I've also begun using the military alphabet when saying things like my postcode. The last letters are PT and it's just easier to say papa tango rather than repeat myself over and over. I never used the military alphabet before I moved here (didn't even know all of them) and it still gives confuses me momentarily when people use it on me but I find it really helpful, especially over the phone.

Yes!  I cannot remember my car registration except in military alphabet now.  I also learned to use it since moving here, at the same job I learned to use haitch when on the phone.  Never used the military alphabet in my life before moving here, I'd just say b for boy or something.  It made people at my job giggle a bit when I'd say yankee for Y when doing the military alphabet. 

We've had so many threads about 'haitch' vs 'aitch' over the years! And I still maintain that 'haitch' is incorrect no matter who you are or where you live.

Anyone know the origin of the use of 'haitch'? Regional use? Is it an Irish English thing?

Anyone know the origin of the use of 'haitch'? Regional use? Is it an Irish English thing?

I don't know the origin, but apparently 'haitch' is used in Ireland. There's a funny article about it here.

speaking of words is "nowt" a north eastern thing?
My stepkids says it and it drives me nuts like they cant say nothing...DH says when they were in another school they didnt say it and now in this school it is the norm?

So do you say nowt?
*sorry to kinda highjack but along the same lines hiatch which DH doesnt do <phew>

Nowt for nothing and Owt for anything as in the Yorkshire Motto:

Hear all, see all, say nowt
Eat all, drink all, pay nowt
And if ever tha does owt for nowt
Allus do it for thisen.

At least that's what my Yorkshire grandfather used to say to us as children.

Nowt for nothing and Owt for anything as in the Yorkshire Motto:

Hear all, see all, say nowt
Eat all, drink all, pay nowt
And if ever tha does owt for nowt
Allus do it for thisen.

At least that's what my Yorkshire grandfather used to say to us as children.

I've heard people in Crewe saying "nowt"; my in-laws say "nought". When I first would go out and about, I'd heard people say "summat", which DH has told me means "something like that" or "something", because I'd always get confused.

My Dad (USC and only been to the UK or Ireland a handful of times) says haitch and always has to my recollection.

Completely unrelated, something that made me giggle:  Last night I noticed that the BBC iPlayer volume max is 11.  It immediately made me think of Spinal Tap.  A hidden reference perhaps?