Age = H
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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Do Americans pronounce age ache then?
No. They aren't saying that "age" sounds like 'h'. They're just close enough that any acoustic imperfections in the room (or the body of either person) could cause one to be misheard as the other.
A-g (age)
A-ch (H)
Ache doesn't sound like H, it sounds like ake. When we say age it sounds like eidg, which might sound somewhat similar to aitch.
That makes no sense.
The word 'age' kinda sounds like the letter H. Which is why the patient spelt put the rest of thier first name instead of stating hiw old they are.
Took me a minute to get, but figured I'd help others get the joke cause it got a chuckle out of me once I did.
Who uses that?
Nobody. The patient misheard.
But in what field of work does H mean Age?
Edit: I don’t have how you get from Age to H
Edit 2: I got it below. I guess the redditors are here who don’t know how downvotes are supposed to work.
I feel like my previous response kinda covered that. The patient didn't hear "age" and think "oh, when he said age he obviously meant h". They thought "he said h". The word "age" never entered the patient's mind.
Can you explain the joke; I’m missing it.
Edit: I get it; you have to sound it out and speak with a bit of an accent and fast. “Age” is supposed to sound like the letter “H”.
What accent is that?
Old person
I don't get it
Patient thought doc was spelling his name
But why? Is there some kind of reference to something I'm missing?
In certain accents, age and H sound similar.
Which ones?
I've heard some either Australian or British or both that pronounce H as something close to Hayche. Using a similar accent, and making it a bit hard to hear by mumbling or something, Hayche and age can sound similar.
Hayche is of course made up, but that's how it feels to me to write it, but I'm no linguist, and I don't know how to write in pronunciation guides.
Must be Aussies then. Brits it's ache.
Old person
You're not supposed to soak your memes in water.
sniffs
Its not water. It's chlorof...
This is stupid, silly and somehow still funny.
This might be the worst joke I have ever seen, and that's if it even works.