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Definition of aitch in English: aitch(British haitch) noun eɪtʃeɪtʃ The letter H. Example sentencesExamples - The dropping of aitches is widespread and is generally considered substandard.
- We're in the sort of plush Glasgow hotel where waiters scuttle along behind you sweeping up your dropped aitches.
- She tried the name, again giving the hard consonant of the ‘K’ and the aitch a sibilant sound.
- Occasionally, the aitch was not retained.
- Aitch is the most interesting name of a letter.
- A diffident young man swung a boot and rather apologetically struck an egg-shaped ball through a large wooden aitch - and by doing so, changed the nature of England sport.
- The only words in the book spelt with an aitch are his name Haigh, and the town Huddersfield, which of course are pronounced Aigh and Uddersfleld.
- All the dictionaries in my house agree that aitch is correct.
- To describe the noise, I've tried every combination of vowels and aitches.
- But he also drops some of his aitches, so he'll say ‘orse for horse, and that's something that doesn't usually happen in Scotland.
Phrases Fail to pronounce the letter h at the beginning of words, a characteristic feature of certain dialects. Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's all very well for Blair to slur his consonants and drop his aitches, but that's all put on.’
- Unlike so many of the older Portuguese he did not drop his aitches; but for all that he used quaint, evocative words, like potah potah for puddle, and seemed to belong to a hermetical world neither Guyanese nor foreign.
- The character tended to drop his aitches, yielding I never ‘ad it, so I'd ‘ad it as far as judgin’ was concerned.
- He's another one who drops his aitches.
- Are we the only ones who drop our aitches and do we really say ‘were’ instead of ` was’.
- When the soldier speaks he drops his aitches and several other letters.
- Why do people moan about people dropping their aitches?
- Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with ‘Give ‘itler ‘ell!’
- If a policeman writes in why does he have to drop his aitches and sound gruff and arrogant?
- She apparently also has the nicknames ‘Hollywood’ and ‘Fabulous,’ which means that poor Matt has to say those words like shibboleths, or like Eliza Doolittle trying not to drop her aitches.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Old French ache. Definition of aitch in US English: aitch(British haitch) nounāCHeɪtʃ The letter H. Example sentencesExamples - All the dictionaries in my house agree that aitch is correct.
- The only words in the book spelt with an aitch are his name Haigh, and the town Huddersfield, which of course are pronounced Aigh and Uddersfleld.
- A diffident young man swung a boot and rather apologetically struck an egg-shaped ball through a large wooden aitch - and by doing so, changed the nature of England sport.
- She tried the name, again giving the hard consonant of the ‘K’ and the aitch a sibilant sound.
- But he also drops some of his aitches, so he'll say ‘orse for horse, and that's something that doesn't usually happen in Scotland.
- Occasionally, the aitch was not retained.
- To describe the noise, I've tried every combination of vowels and aitches.
- The dropping of aitches is widespread and is generally considered substandard.
- Aitch is the most interesting name of a letter.
- We're in the sort of plush Glasgow hotel where waiters scuttle along behind you sweeping up your dropped aitches.
Phrases Fail to pronounce the letter h at the beginning of words, a common feature of dialect speech. Example sentencesExamples - If a policeman writes in why does he have to drop his aitches and sound gruff and arrogant?
- She apparently also has the nicknames ‘Hollywood’ and ‘Fabulous,’ which means that poor Matt has to say those words like shibboleths, or like Eliza Doolittle trying not to drop her aitches.
- Why do people moan about people dropping their aitches?
- Unlike so many of the older Portuguese he did not drop his aitches; but for all that he used quaint, evocative words, like potah potah for puddle, and seemed to belong to a hermetical world neither Guyanese nor foreign.
- Are we the only ones who drop our aitches and do we really say ‘were’ instead of ` was’.
- ‘It's all very well for Blair to slur his consonants and drop his aitches, but that's all put on.’
- The character tended to drop his aitches, yielding I never ‘ad it, so I'd ‘ad it as far as judgin’ was concerned.
- When the soldier speaks he drops his aitches and several other letters.
- He's another one who drops his aitches.
- Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with ‘Give ‘itler ‘ell!’
Origin Mid 16th century: from Old French ache. |