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{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ar",
"2": "إِتْش",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Arabic: إِتْش (ʔitš)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Arabic: إِتْش (ʔitš)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "έιτς",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Greek: έιτς (éits)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Greek: έιτς (éits)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "エイチ"
},
"expansion": "エイチ (eichi)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "エッチ"
},
"expansion": "エッチ (etchi)",
"name": "ja-r"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: エイチ (eichi), dated エッチ (etchi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "에이치",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 에이치 (eichi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 에이치 (eichi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "hec",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Malay: hec",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Malay: hec"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "اِچ\n<t:English letter H>",
"3": "اِیچ\n<t:English letter H>",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Persian: اِچ (eč, “English letter H”), اِیچ (eyč, “English letter H”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Persian: اِچ (eč, “English letter H”), اِیچ (eyč, “English letter H”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "эйч",
"bor": "1",
"t": "English letter H"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: эйч (ejč, “English letter H”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: эйч (ejč, “English letter H”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "eyts",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Tagalog: eyts",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Tagalog: eyts"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "th",
"2": "เอช",
"3": "เฮช",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Thai: เอช (éech), เฮช (héech)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thai: เอช (éech), เฮช (héech)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ache"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ache",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "ache"
},
"expansion": "Old French ache",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "VL.",
"3": "*acca"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *acca",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "acca"
},
"expansion": "Italian acca",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ha"
},
"expansion": "ha",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ka"
},
"expansion": "ka",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ecchi"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of ecchi",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ache, borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca. (Compare Italian 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. Doublet of ecchi.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "aitches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "aitch (plural aitches)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Latin letter names",
"orig": "en:Latin letter names",
"parents": [
"Letter names",
"Letters, symbols, and punctuation",
"Names",
"Orthography",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Writing",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Lemmas",
"Human",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "aitchbone"
},
{
"word": "aitchless"
},
{
"word": "aitch-dropping"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged",
"text": "The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257",
"text": "\"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.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 469",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "The word hour is written with a silent aitch."
},
{
"text": "Cockneys drop their aitches."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of the Latin-script letter H."
],
"id": "en-aitch-en-noun-4vY4vOLS",
"links": [
[
"H",
"H#English"
]
],
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "letter"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "a"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "bee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "dee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "e"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ef"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "gee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "i"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "jay"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "kay"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "el"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "em"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "en"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "o"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "pee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cue"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ar"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ess"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "tee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "vee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "double-u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ex"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "wye"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zed"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "haitch"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "ache"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔeytš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "إِتْش"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "hā",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "هَا"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "eic",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "এইচ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "haš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хаш"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ejč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ейч"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hac"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "haa"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ho"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hoo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "âche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ache"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hache"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ha"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "éits",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "έιτς"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hē"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ec",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "एच"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "he"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ha"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "héis"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "uath"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "acca"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "eichi",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "エイチ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eichi",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "에이치"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hā"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hā"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ha"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hec"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hibbin"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "ec",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "एच"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ache"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "uhe"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "acha"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hah"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hake"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hâš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "هاش"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "eyč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ایچ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "h"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "when contrasted with \"ch\"",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "samo h"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agá"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "haș"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ejč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"English",
"neuter"
],
"word": "эйч"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "aš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "аш"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xa",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ха"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hache"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hå"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "eyts"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ha (Abakada)"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"english": "Abecedario alphabet",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "atse"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "éech",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "เอช"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "héech",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "เฮช"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "he"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ejč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"English",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ейч"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "aš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "аш"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ha",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "га"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hắt"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hờ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aetsh"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈeɪt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪtʃ"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "āch"
}
],
"word": "aitch"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "aitchbone"
},
{
"word": "aitchless"
},
{
"word": "aitch-dropping"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ar",
"2": "إِتْش",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Arabic: إِتْش (ʔitš)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Arabic: إِتْش (ʔitš)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "έιτς",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Greek: έιτς (éits)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Greek: έιτς (éits)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "エイチ"
},
"expansion": "エイチ (eichi)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "エッチ"
},
"expansion": "エッチ (etchi)",
"name": "ja-r"
}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: エイチ (eichi), dated エッチ (etchi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "에이치",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 에이치 (eichi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 에이치 (eichi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "hec",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Malay: hec",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Malay: hec"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "اِچ\n<t:English letter H>",
"3": "اِیچ\n<t:English letter H>",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Persian: اِچ (eč, “English letter H”), اِیچ (eyč, “English letter H”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Persian: اِچ (eč, “English letter H”), اِیچ (eyč, “English letter H”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "эйч",
"bor": "1",
"t": "English letter H"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: эйч (ejč, “English letter H”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: эйч (ejč, “English letter H”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "eyts",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Tagalog: eyts",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Tagalog: eyts"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "th",
"2": "เอช",
"3": "เฮช",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Thai: เอช (éech), เฮช (héech)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Thai: เอช (éech), เฮช (héech)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ache"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ache",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "ache"
},
"expansion": "Old French ache",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "VL.",
"3": "*acca"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin *acca",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "acca"
},
"expansion": "Italian acca",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ha"
},
"expansion": "ha",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ka"
},
"expansion": "ka",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ecchi"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of ecchi",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ache, borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca. (Compare Italian 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. Doublet of ecchi.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "aitches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "aitch (plural aitches)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "letter"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "a"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "bee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "dee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "e"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ef"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "gee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "i"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "jay"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "kay"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "el"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "em"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "en"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "o"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "pee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "cue"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ar"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ess"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "tee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "vee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "double-u"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "ex"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "wye"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zee"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latin",
"letter-name"
],
"word": "zed"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms derived from Vulgar Latin",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"Rhymes:English/eɪtʃ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪtʃ/1 syllable",
"en:Latin letter names"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged",
"text": "The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257",
"text": "\"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.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 469",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "The word hour is written with a silent aitch."
},
{
"text": "Cockneys drop their aitches."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of the Latin-script letter H."
],
"links": [
[
"H",
"H#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈeɪt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪtʃ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-aitch.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-aitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-aitch.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-aitch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-aitch.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "āch"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "haitch"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "ache"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔeytš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "إِتْش"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "hā",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "هَا"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "eic",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "এইচ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "haš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хаш"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ejč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ейч"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hac"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "haa"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ho"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hoo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "âche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ache"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hache"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ha"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "éits",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "έιτς"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hē"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ec",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "एच"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "há"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "he"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ha"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "héis"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "uath"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "acca"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "eichi",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "エイチ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eichi",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "에이치"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hā"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hā"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ha"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hec"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hibbin"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "ec",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "एच"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ache"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "uhe"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "acha"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hah"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hake"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "hâš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "هاش"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "eyč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ایچ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "h"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "when contrasted with \"ch\"",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "samo h"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agá"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "haș"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ejč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"English",
"neuter"
],
"word": "эйч"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "aš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "аш"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xa",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ха"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hache"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hå"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "eyts"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "ha (Abakada)"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"english": "Abecedario alphabet",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "atse"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "éech",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "เอช"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "héech",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "เฮช"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "he"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ejč",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"English",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ейч"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "aš",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "аш"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ha",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "га"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hắt"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"word": "hờ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "name of the letter H, h",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aetsh"
}
],
"word": "aitch"
}
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