Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

That seems wrong... a HTFU pill seems right.

It's hard to scream for "no exceptions", it is language.

H on harden is strongly pronounced, it isn't "'arden the fuck up", it is "harden the fuck up"... the strong H means A rather than An.

Maybe the difference is now more subtle... which acronyms, when spoken, would you pronounce as a word (i.e. NASA) or spell out (i.e. MP3) vs the ones where you would expand them (i.e. Harden the fuck up). I mean... who actually says "H T F U" rather than "Harden the fuck up".

Why would you expand it? I wrote HTFU, not "harden the fuck up". You'd surely read what I wrote, not what you know it stands for. That's just weird.

The hotel / 'otel thing reminds me of Eddie Izzard talking about the differences between American and English pronunciation. "You say 'erbs, whereas we say 'herbs', because it's got a fucking H in it."