PROFESSOR OF AUTOMOTIVE LINGUISTICS SAYS MANUAL TRANSMISSION H-PATTERN SHOULD BE CHANGED TO AN “M”

A University of Milton researcher is calling upon the world’s automakers to do away with the entrenched “H” pattern manual shifter and replace it with a modified “M”.  

Prof. de Gallo used a Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Mangaka Outline Pen, which is half the length of its name, to draw his proposed shift knob

Automotive Linguistics professor Rico de Gallo said the 
H-pattern is outdated and it’s time to give another consonant the opportunity to be displayed on automotive shift knobs.  “I’m not advocating something extreme, like switching to a vowel,” claimed de Gallo.  “But besides being archaic, the H-pattern is a glottal fricative and the M is a labial fricative, which I think is much more pleasing to both the eye and the gear.”  

Here are Parksplug, we think the H works fine and that Professor de Gallo is a glottal fricative.