Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The letter h.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A modern spelling of the name of the letter H: formerly written ache. See H.
Wiktionary
- n. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The letter h or H.
Etymologies
- French hache. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ireland we say 'aitch' that is the Presbyterians do - for some reason which escapes me Catholics say 'haitch' - another argument for integrated education.”
“Next they'll be saying "aitch" instead of "haitch" for the eighth letter of the alphabet.”
“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."
“If I as much as dropped an 'aitch', I was consigned to the naughty step.”
“But I entirely agree with you about 'aitch' and 'shai-jool'.”
“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.”
“English speakers practicly always insert aitches into forren words written with an aitch the natives dont utter.”
“The Brits think they say aitch and tend to look down on the Irish for saying haitch.”
“Plz to mind teh gap in teh aitch tee tee pee, kthx.”
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“Honest disclosure of a possible conflict of interests: My two sons are both officers in the IDF and are currently both in the general area of Gaza. aitch”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aitch’.
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[Open] Correctly-spelled words that l...
Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
(Here’s the original list with a slo...orignal, refect, collum, lightening, manakin, neumatic, mutch, miosis, radicle, tryptic, kyack, apatite and 119 more...
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Interesting Words
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patiomensch's Words
ontogeny, plangent, meritocratic, bisensuous, metonymic, bilious, booya, endothermic, nomenclature, dysphemism, mimetic, prosthetic and 61 more...
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Words
I've looked up.
addax, aitch, effulgence, quaternary, glycyrrhizin, guernsey, gnomon, clepsydra, augury, vacua, gossypol, diol and 21 more...
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WordLover42's Favorites
These are a few of my personal favorite words
jabberwocky, beguile, lovely, aristocrat, tintinnabulation, aeschylean, bric-a-brac, squdge, acharya, cotyledon, afrikaans, bobbejaan and 58 more...
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Wonders of the word
optic to coptic
alphabit, betamaximum, glammar, iota jot set, deltidium, kappale, chicane, chide, inusitate, pazend, abjad, Pinyin and 20 more...
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Words to Remember
Words I found while reading books that I wanted to remember for the next time I come across them.
paradigm, ennui, chaise, querulously, mauve, impecuniosity, obsequious, connoisseur, reticence, nacre, aitch, eisegesis and 8 more...
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genghisjohn's Words
juggernaut, motorcade, extravaganza, schooner, obstreperous, aitch
Tweets
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dimã©lion transliteral spelling of the letter H. Jun 20, 2009