aitchn.

Brit.

/eɪtʃ/, U.S.

/eɪtʃ/

Forms:

α. 1600s ach, 1600s ache, 1700s– aitch, 1800s aych, 1800s aytch.

β. 1800s– haitch.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English H.

Etymology: Representing a pronunciation of H (see H n. 1a, and see discussion of the etymology and the pronunciation at that entry).

(The name of) the letter H, h (see H n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > H

aitch1623

α.

1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes lix. sig. C^v Into what place so euer H, maie pyke him, Where euer thou find ache, thou shalt not like hym.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iv. 51 Beat. I am exceeding ill, hey ho. Mar. For a hauke, a horse, or a husband? Beat. For the letter that begins them al, H. ]

1623 J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 6 in Dict. Spanish & Eng. H. This letter..is called in the Spanish as in the English Ache.

1640 S. Daines Orthoepia Anglicana sig. B4 There be in the English Tongue foure and twenty Letters, as here followeth... A B C D E F G H [etc.]... Their names, or denominations. a be ce de e ef ge ach [etc.].

1677 J. Newton Eng. Acad. i. i. 3 The Letter h is never sounded according to its name ach, but thus, hee, as in hand, help, him.

1761 D. Fenning Gram. Eng. Tongue 1 in Royal Eng. Dict. The letters..in the English alphabet are twenty-six, as..H..aitch.

1773 J. Herries Elements Speech i. iv. 46 The word length..is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

1825 S. Oliver Gen. Crit. Gram. Inglish Lang. i. xi. 140 A barbarously pedantick affectation of..expressing by a multiplicity of aitches the Oriental guttural sounds.

1907 Daily Chron. 9 July 3/3 Humanity, with a capital aitch.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. vii Mr. Blythe's continual remark: ‘What the bee aitch are they all about?’

2002 G. Duncan I, Lucifer (2003) 2 You'll have noticed I'm capitalizing the aitch on He and His and Him.

β. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 409 The cockney young lady, who pathetically lamented that she ‘never could exasperate the Haitch’.1862 Punch 23 Aug. 75/1 She could not bear hoysters until there was a haitch in the month.1939 Boys' Life May 33/4 All the names begin with a haitch. There's 'Orace, 'Erbert, 'Enry, 'Ugh, 'Ubert, 'Arold, 'Arriet, and 'Etty—all hexcept the last one and we 'ad 'er named Halice.1984 C. Kightly Country Voices vi. 159 My name is Hannah Clark, with a ‘haitch’ at the end of Hannah and no ‘e’ on the ‘Clark’.2007 J. Golding Den of Thieves (2009) 46 I noticed that he over-pronounced his haitches.

Phrases

to drop one's aitches: to pronounce words beginning with h without aspirating the initial letter, this being a characteristic feature of certain nonstandard dialects (often regarded as a solecism); cf. to drop one's h's at H n. 1a.In quots. 1550 at α. and 1600 at α. apparently with punning reference to ache n.¹, which at the time was pronounced in the same way as the name of the letter (see the etymological note at ache n.¹).

ΚΠ

1855 Household Words 1 Dec. 421/1 ‘My dear girls,’ said a managing matron, who always thought everybody wrong but herself ; ‘what an 'abit you 'ave got of dropping your aitches!’

1892 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Nevermore I. ii. 41 A very fine young man, but evidently a nobody, inasmuch as he dropped his aitches and so on.

1923 Humorist 24 Nov. 434/2 I frankly own in Tompkins' veins There flows no azure blood, His clothes are loud: he always drops His aitches with a thud.

1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover ii. i. 133 Her English remains incorrigible, a flurry of dropped aitches and puerile yelps.

2007 T. Eagleton How to read Poem iii. 49 Dropping your aitches in Knightsbridge probably counts as a deviation, whereas it is normative in parts of Lancashire.

Compounds

aitch-dropper n. a person who drops his or her aitches (see Phrases).

ΚΠ

1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 6/5 (heading) A plea for aitch-droppers.

2009 K. Floyd Stirred but not Shaken (2010) ii. 11 I presumed that he would talk like Alf, the bigoted, loud-mouthed, racist, homophobic, working-class aitch-dropper.

aitch-dropping n. and adj. (a) n. the dropping of aitches (see Phrases); (b) adj. given to or characterized by the dropping of aitches.

ΚΠ

1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 6/5 Aitch-dropping is no modern Cockney vulgarism, but has the sanction of ‘hoar antiquity’.

1900 G. Swift Somerley 115 A bounder of the aitch-dropping type.

1980 Lang. in Society 9 4 ‘Aitch-dropping’ is a stereotypical feature of a number of British regional accents.

2007 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Oct. 52 The aitch-dropping, glottal-stop eschewing children's presenters.

aitch-free adj. = aitchless adj. at Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in pronunciation > not aspirating H

aitchless1865

h-less1893

aitch-free1925

1925 Contemp. Rev. June 746 The aitch-free accent.

1995 Mail on Sunday 31 Dec. A Square-jawed Bond baddie with an aitch-free Sheffield accent.

Derivatives

ˈaitchless adj. lacking an h; (esp. of a person or speech) characterized by the dropping of aitches; cf. h-less adj. at H n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

aitchless1865

h-less1893

aitch-free1925

1865 Fortn. Rev. 1 755 As well might you expect the fussy country tradesman to allow the mouldy municipality of his fading town to be swept away, where he airs his ‘aitchless’ eloquence.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 135 Hebrew capitalists and aitchless millionaires.

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.

2002 A. Coren in Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. There was another Coren in Harry's Hoxton house (an aitchless address in 1901, but..a poncy installation gallery now).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aitch
释义	aitchn. Brit. /eɪtʃ/, U.S. /eɪtʃ/ Forms: α. 1600s ach, 1600s ache, 1700s– aitch, 1800s aych, 1800s aytch. β. 1800s– haitch. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English H. Etymology: Representing a pronunciation of H (see H n. 1a, and see discussion of the etymology and the pronunciation at that entry). (The name of) the letter H, h (see H n.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > H aitch1623 α. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes lix. sig. C^v Into what place so euer H, maie pyke him, Where euer thou find ache, thou shalt not like hym. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iv. 51 Beat. I am exceeding ill, hey ho. Mar. For a hauke, a horse, or a husband? Beat. For the letter that begins them al, H. View more context for this quotation] 1623 J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. 6 in Dict. Spanish & Eng. H. This letter..is called in the Spanish as in the English Ache. 1640 S. Daines Orthoepia Anglicana sig. B4 There be in the English Tongue foure and twenty Letters, as here followeth... A B C D E F G H [etc.]... Their names, or denominations. a be ce de e ef ge ach [etc.]. 1677 J. Newton Eng. Acad. i. i. 3 The Letter h is never sounded according to its name ach, but thus, hee, as in hand, help, him. 1761 D. Fenning Gram. Eng. Tongue 1 in Royal Eng. Dict. The letters..in the English alphabet are twenty-six, as..H..aitch. 1773 J. Herries Elements Speech i. iv. 46 The word length..is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch. 1825 S. Oliver Gen. Crit. Gram. Inglish Lang. i. xi. 140 A barbarously pedantick affectation of..expressing by a multiplicity of aitches the Oriental guttural sounds. 1907 Daily Chron. 9 July 3/3 Humanity, with a capital aitch. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. vii Mr. Blythe's continual remark: ‘What the bee aitch are they all about?’ 2002 G. Duncan I, Lucifer (2003) 2 You'll have noticed I'm capitalizing the aitch on He and His and Him. β. 1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 409 The cockney young lady, who pathetically lamented that she ‘never could exasperate the Haitch’.1862 Punch 23 Aug. 75/1 She could not bear hoysters until there was a haitch in the month.1939 Boys' Life May 33/4 All the names begin with a haitch. There's 'Orace, 'Erbert, 'Enry, 'Ugh, 'Ubert, 'Arold, 'Arriet, and 'Etty—all hexcept the last one and we 'ad 'er named Halice.1984 C. Kightly Country Voices vi. 159 My name is Hannah Clark, with a ‘haitch’ at the end of Hannah and no ‘e’ on the ‘Clark’.2007 J. Golding Den of Thieves (2009) 46 I noticed that he over-pronounced his haitches. Phrases to drop one's aitches: to pronounce words beginning with h without aspirating the initial letter, this being a characteristic feature of certain nonstandard dialects (often regarded as a solecism); cf. to drop one's h's at H n. 1a.In quots. 1550 at α. and 1600 at α. apparently with punning reference to ache n.¹, which at the time was pronounced in the same way as the name of the letter (see the etymological note at ache n.¹). ΚΠ 1855 Household Words 1 Dec. 421/1 ‘My dear girls,’ said a managing matron, who always thought everybody wrong but herself ; ‘what an 'abit you 'ave got of dropping your aitches!’ 1892 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Nevermore I. ii. 41 A very fine young man, but evidently a nobody, inasmuch as he dropped his aitches and so on. 1923 Humorist 24 Nov. 434/2 I frankly own in Tompkins' veins There flows no azure blood, His clothes are loud: he always drops His aitches with a thud. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover ii. i. 133 Her English remains incorrigible, a flurry of dropped aitches and puerile yelps. 2007 T. Eagleton How to read Poem iii. 49 Dropping your aitches in Knightsbridge probably counts as a deviation, whereas it is normative in parts of Lancashire. Compounds aitch-dropper n. a person who drops his or her aitches (see Phrases). ΚΠ 1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 6/5 (heading) A plea for aitch-droppers. 2009 K. Floyd Stirred but not Shaken (2010) ii. 11 I presumed that he would talk like Alf, the bigoted, loud-mouthed, racist, homophobic, working-class aitch-dropper. aitch-dropping n. and adj. (a) n. the dropping of aitches (see Phrases); (b) adj. given to or characterized by the dropping of aitches. ΚΠ 1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 6/5 Aitch-dropping is no modern Cockney vulgarism, but has the sanction of ‘hoar antiquity’. 1900 G. Swift Somerley 115 A bounder of the aitch-dropping type. 1980 Lang. in Society 9 4 ‘Aitch-dropping’ is a stereotypical feature of a number of British regional accents. 2007 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Oct. 52 The aitch-dropping, glottal-stop eschewing children's presenters. aitch-free adj. = aitchless adj. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in pronunciation > not aspirating H aitchless1865 h-less1893 aitch-free1925 1925 Contemp. Rev. June 746 The aitch-free accent. 1995 Mail on Sunday 31 Dec. A Square-jawed Bond baddie with an aitch-free Sheffield accent. Derivatives ˈaitchless adj. lacking an h; (esp. of a person or speech) characterized by the dropping of aitches; cf. h-less adj. at H n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in pronunciation > not aspirating H aitchless1865 h-less1893 aitch-free1925 1865 Fortn. Rev. 1 755 As well might you expect the fussy country tradesman to allow the mouldy municipality of his fading town to be swept away, where he airs his ‘aitchless’ eloquence. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 135 Hebrew capitalists and aitchless millionaires. 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. 2002 A. Coren in Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. There was another Coren in Harry's Hoxton house (an aitchless address in 1901, but..a poncy installation gallery now). 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