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- noun Plural form of
aitch .
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Examples
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Smith dropped her "aitches" with the cheerful ease of one to the manner born, bless her stout old Cockney heart!
A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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'aitches' like a veritable Eliza Doolittle; I can even get rid of the "t's" in words like better and button, substituting some sort of glottal grunt.
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Why did we allow children to drop aitches and, what was more extraordinary, put them in where they were not wanted?
From the archive, 20 January 1943: Extremes in spoken English 2012
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"He's a very talented player, Mike, but sometimes I don't like the boy's body language," Taylor will often opine, presumably after detecting what one can only assume to be the physical equivalent of a misplaced apostrophe, a series of dropped aitches, or possibly even a shrugged expletive or two.
Wimbledon deafened by cacophony of body language | Harry Pearson 2011
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Her accent veers between extremes of posh diction enunciated slowly and carefully, and cockney aitches or dropped "ts".
Film Maxine 2009
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"He's a very talented player, Mike, but sometimes I don't like the boy's body language," Taylor will often opine, presumably after detecting what one can only assume to be the physical equivalent of a misplaced apostrophe, a series of dropped aitches, or possibly even a shrugged expletive or two.
Wimbledon deafened by cacophony of body language | Harry Pearson 2011
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That dropping aitches has been our number one shibboleth for such a long time is praps part of the reason.
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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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Wii appeers 2 b hung up awn de aitches a liddel furver down de fred. ffffff
Hello my baby, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Everyone who has grown up pronouncing his aitches and in a house with a bathroom and one servant is likely to have grown up with these feelings; hence the chasmic, impassable quality of class-distinctions in the West.
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