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▪ I. aitch
(the letter); see ache n.3 and H.
▪ II. aitch|eɪtʃ|
Name of the letter H; cf. ache n.3 Also Comb., as aitch-dropping, aitch-free adjs. Hence ˈaitchless a., that does not aspirate his h's.
1887H. Baumann Londinismen p. xvi, Avowing himself ‘An Aitch Dropper’. 1892,1894[see H 1 a, 2]. 1900G. Swift 75 The aitch-less 'Arry. Ibid. 115 A bounder of the aitch-dropping type. 1903Shaw Man & Superman II. 50 This man takes more trouble to drop his aitches than ever his father did to pick them up. 1907Daily Chron. 9 July 3/3 Humanity, with a capital aitch. 1925Contemp. Rev. June 746 The aitch-free accent. 1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xiii. 257 Even the aitchless millionaire, though sometimes he..learns a B.B.C. accent, seldom succeeds in disguising himself as completely as he would like to. |