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A most contentious letter – ‘h’

Tue Apr 12 2016 - 01:02

Sir, – While the Irish "haitch" seems to be making great headway into the heartlands of England (April 9th), there seems to be little awareness of a counter-invasion of ridiculously intrusive "haitches" in the broadcast media here. Unless, that is, there have been new offices of state called "thaoiseach" and "thánaiste" created while I wasn't looking. – Yours, etc,

DAVID SMITH,

Artane,

Dublin 5.

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