Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The letter h.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A modern spelling of the name of the letter H: formerly written ache. See
H .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The letter h or H.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The name of the
Latin script letterH /h .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Next they'll be saying "aitch" instead of "haitch" for the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Next they'll be saying "aitch" instead of "haitch" for the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Ireland we say 'aitch' that is the Presbyterians do - for some reason which escapes me Catholics say 'haitch' - another argument for integrated education.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010
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H is the only other letter one could conceivably make into the word "aitch"; although it would take a Brit to justify it, it certainly makes more sense than zed.
"I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead." Ann Althouse 2007
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If I as much as dropped an 'aitch', I was consigned to the naughty step.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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But I entirely agree with you about 'aitch' and 'shai-jool'.
WordPress.com News 2008
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I'd love to hear her home-spun decisions; Well, by golly, if a man wants to marry another man, then he should just move to Russia so I can keep an eye on both of those sinners and then cast them to aitch, ee, double hockey sticks.
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English speakers practicly always insert aitches into forren words written with an aitch the natives dont utter.
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The Brits think they say aitch and tend to look down on the Irish for saying haitch.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Plz to mind teh gap in teh aitch tee tee pee, kthx.
Spy kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
dimã©lion commented on the word aitch
transliteral spelling of the letter H.
June 20, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word aitch
Oooh, did I just find another rhymeless word?
August 29, 2016
alexz commented on the word aitch
I think it rhymes with haitch
August 29, 2016
bilby commented on the word aitch
I think Bob Dylan could rhyme it with bitch.
August 30, 2016