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- noun Plural form of
haitch .
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Examples
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Plush, civilised, proud - the sort of place where dropping your haitches was a more egregious breach of etiquette than dropping your britches.
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_Not_ a hopera, CHARLIE -- about him along of some haitches gone wrong.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various
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All CAT ULLUS's haitches won't 'elp yer, if Nature' as built yer a flat!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various
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'Cos yer' OMER, or haitches, is quisby, in Rome or in London, will know
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various
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You may pop in yer haitches permiskus, in spite of the prigs 'rude remarks.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various
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We dhrop a letter here an 'there, except th' haitches, -- we niver dhrop thim, -- but we're th 'same breed iv fightin' men.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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"Madam mustn't pick up the bad 'abit of droppin' 'er haitches," he warned, parentally.
The Dust Flower Basil King 1893
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'I never dropped my haitches till I got the part in EastEnders,' she tells me.
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He really wants you to know that he's dropping the haitches! raga damn thing's coming off the rails already. rotten beat-thieving kids.
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Still, haitches or no haitches, "he concluded, with a profound sigh," I wish as I knowed 'ow I could set about coming it over that' ere one-legged widder lidy at Putney what 'ave the two great hauk's eggs. "
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Various
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