| 单词 | to drop one's aitches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drop one's aitches 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. < as lemmas |
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