aitch
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#AITCHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#AITCH ache, borrowed from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#AITCH ache, from Vulgar LatinCategory:English terms derived from Vulgar Latin#AITCH *acca. The source is unclear, but may descend from the vowelless alphabetic sequence ha ka 'H, K' (becoming [aka] when the [h] ceased to be pronounced), as K had low frequency in Late Latin.[1] Doublet of ecchiCategory:English doublets#AITCH.
Pronunciation
Noun
aitch (plural aitches)Category:English lemmas#AITCHCategory:English nouns#AITCHCategory:English countable nouns#AITCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AITCHCategory:Pages with entries#AITCHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#AITCH
- The name of the Latin script letter H/h.Category:en:Latin letter names#AITCH
- The word hour is written with a silent aitch.Category:English terms with usage examples#AITCH
- Cockneys drop their aitches.Category:English terms with usage examples#AITCH
- 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
- The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.Category:English terms with quotations#AITCH
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257:
- "If you've got any drawing-room manners, or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or dropping aitches, you'd better chuck 'em away. They ain't no further use."Category:English terms with quotations#AITCH
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 469:
- She frowned, hearing Lim Cheng Po's voice, so English, so refined, so very English upper-class. And often she had had to tell Joe about his aitches.Category:English terms with quotations#AITCH
Usage notes
- Often used in reference to H-dropping.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: إِتْش (ʔitš)
- → Greek: έιτς (éits)
- → Japanese: エイチ (eichi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#AITCH, エッチ (etchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#AITCH
- → English: ecchi
- → Korean: 에이치 (eichi)
- → Malay: hec
- → Persian: اِچ (eč), اِیچ (eyč)
- → Russian: эйч (ejč)
- → Tagalog: eyts
- → Thai: เอช (éech), เฮช (héech)
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See also
References
- ↑ Liberman, Anatoly (7 August 2013), “Alphabet soup, part 2: H and Y”, in Oxford Etymologist, Oxford University Press, retrieved 3 October 2013
Anagrams
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
Orthographically from EnglishCategory:Scots terms borrowed from English#AITCHCategory:Scots terms derived from English#AITCH aitch, but phonetically a regular reflex of Middle EnglishCategory:Scots terms inherited from Middle English#AITCHCategory:Scots terms derived from Middle English#AITCH ache, from Old FrenchCategory:Scots terms derived from Old French#AITCH ache, from Vulgar LatinCategory:Scots terms derived from Vulgar Latin#AITCH *acca, probably an extension of earlier ha, from an unidentified source.
Pronunciation
Numeral
aitch (plural aitches)Category:Scots lemmas#AITCHCategory:Scots nouns#AITCHCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#AITCHCategory:Pages with entries#AITCHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#AITCH
- The name of the Latin script letter H/h.Category:sco:Latin letter names#AITCH