Today is my last day in the main job.
Not unpredictably, IT assumed yesterday was the last day, and Iām locked out of my computer even after the local IT person requesting an unlock. Itās not a bad thing, because I can clear the office and talk to people a bit more at this end of the day, but Iāve a feeling that there will be a race to complete the other final activities, assuming they get done at all.
People have been really kind, and Iāll miss them.
Good luck in your retirement (if that is what it is)
Itās a bittersweet moment, but lots to look forward to too. I was made redundant at 45 , but knew it was coming a year before so had that time to decide what to do with our lives.
Not quite every āhā word. Hour, honest, honour, heir for starters, but of course you did tell them that, didnāt you? 
In the course of checking the above I discovered that the āhā in herbs is silent in the USA but not in Britain. Mind you the same source spelt āhonourā without the āuā. Outrageous. 
Hope youāll enjoy extra space in life for the things that really matter!
Itās probably in the yoghurt aisle 
I wish all my students had a pet English lady when they were small 
!!! It is one of my bug bears!!! One girl was reading part of a text about Cooper Pedy and was happily telling us all about not needing hair conditioning in the underground houses there. Cue a reading pause and yet another āhā lesson 
Itās interesting you say that, quite a few French people Iāve talked to add an āhā where an English-speaking person wouldnāt pronounce it. I canāt think of any offhand apart from āhoneybodyā for anybody.
One newscaster the other day pronounced the āhā in Andy Burnhamās surname beautifully, but as far as I know itās meant sound like Burnam.
Youāll be amazed you ever found time for work! 
And who knows, maybe some of those really kind people will continue to be in your life?
..and @Arcalia ā¦..really simple to make it at home if you have 1/2 hour spare, a couple of litres of fresh full fat milk, a muslin cloth and some lemon juice - its the same technique for simple creamy soft cheese (like Paneer) and the whey you can sell to body builders 
. Plenty of recipes on the web and they are all the sameā¦
Biking this morning up a steep, narrow lane, an EV inched its way past me, going very slowly. It was a Google Street View car with the roof mounted camera. It then got to the top of the lane, and slowly retraced its route back past me again. I donāt know if they need to film every stretch of road both ways? Either way, maybe Iāll be coming soon to a screen near you on Street View?!
Iāll look in there for it @Juliet - only normally go for the Greek yogs so donāt bother looking at anything else in that section. Thanks for the heads up
Whatās that ?
I will donate half an hour to you - I have been saving a few seconds and minutes of my life since a child and now find that I can go back in time and spend a few minutes saved as a 6 year old and I also have some left over as a teenagerā¦..
You must have been doing something wrong then
these are little kids (around 4-7) and their English vocab is somewhat limited yet some of them already chuckle (with me) about words they might see written with an āhā but which have a very silent (no puff) āhā.
Regarding American English and English Englishā¦ no-one (of any age) is left in any doubt about my feelings re the mess (some, not all) Americans can/have made (in more than one arena) 
My students seem to add them when they arenāt there (eg the hair instead of air above) AND donāt pronounce when they should āmy new āairā brushā
Possibly 15+ years ago, I volunteered to help with Lire et Faire Lire as I can speak perfect French when I am readingā¦ 
(sounds odd, but absolutely true)
Anyway, some of the kids wanted to go further and I was encouraged to do after school sessions for a few years.
Fast-forwardā¦ despite stepping back from after school sessions, many neighbours encourage their grandchildren (and more or less anyone) to āimprove your English, speak with this nice ladyā.
Naturally, kids etc donāt like being told what to do (no more do I) and I always talk in French until (possibly) someone wishes to try out their English skillsā¦
Thatās what Iāve noticed too! I wonder why?
Because that is what happens in French:
HĆ“pital ='Ć“pital
HĆ“tel = 'Ć“tel