different between aitch vs mitch

English

Alternative forms

• haitch (dialectal or nonstandard)
• ache (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English ache, borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, probably an extension of earlier ha, from an unindentified source. Compare Italian acca.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ch, IPA^(key): /e?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?

Noun

aitch (plural aitches)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.
   • 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, October

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

   Cockneys drop their aitches.

Usage notes

• Often used in reference of H dropping.

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ?????? (?itš)
• ? Greek: ???? (éits)
• ? Japanese: ??? (eichi), dated ??? (etchi)
• ? Korean: ??? (eichi)
• ? Persian: ???? (“English letter H”)
• ? Russian: ??? (ej?, “English letter H”)
• ? Thai: ??? (éech), ??? (héech)

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Anagrams

• Cathi, Chait, Chita, chati, tachi, tachi-

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /et?/

Etymology

Orthographically from English aitch, but phonetically a regular reflex of Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, probably an extension of earlier ha, from an unindentified source.

Alternative forms

• itch

Numeral

aitch (plural aitches)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.

References

• https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/h

English

Alternative forms

• mich, mych, myche, meech, meach
• miche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *my??an (“to steal”), from Proto-Germanic *mukjan? (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)m?g- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

mitch (third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
3. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
   • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):

     "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
     "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."

   John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

4. (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
5. (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.

Synonyms

(play truant):

• bunk off
• skive

Derived terms

• mitcher
• mitchery
• mitching

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