Meanings of aitch in English

Thank Heaven, his tongue was almost virgin to the aitch in Harden.

Like most well-educated natives of those parts, he was an aitch-man himself.

Take the occasional but terrific destruction of the aitch.

Here Lucia was wrong, for Mr. Rickman was entirely happy with the aitch in Helen.

Once she left out an aitch, and then she said the word over again quite right.

On starting work, my colleagues mocked me for not pronouncing in the English way as "aitch".

And once or twice, under the strain of it, he dropped an aitch with the most disconcerting effect.

Pegler did not often drop an aitch, but when she did so forget herself, she did it thoroughly.

It's one of the great inescapable marks of identity, like the way Catholics generally say haitch and Protestants, aitch.

Or, There's another aitch gone.

His excitement was of the strong-winged kind that carried him triumphantly over all obstacles, even the barrier of the aitch.

A boiled aitch-bone of beef is not a difficult joint to carve, as will be seen on reference to the accompanying engraving.

English was spoken everywhere-andmuch of it was the English of the cockney, innocent of the aitch, and redolent of that strange tongue.

There was a dropped aitch for which nurse, who was very choice in her English, would undoubtedly have rebuked him had she been present.

My husband- "shepaused for a second, before venturing upon the word, and the aitch came out somewhat over-aspirated-"readsthemmost religiously.

What, oh what must it feel like, to be capable of eliding the aitch in "Helen" and yet divinely and deliriously in love with her?