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kvalidir: I know that 'haitch' ISN'T a sign of poor education. What I wrote, and stand by, is that it is TAKEN as a marker of the ill-educated.
Language evolves, of course, but the tendency many of us abhor is that of adding unnecessary words or phrases ('up', 'so', 'like', and so on. Language evolution tends to the more simple, not the more complex.
Which is all by-the-by, of course. 'Haitch' grates on many ears; I would advise people not to use it.