h
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- noun
- /eɪtʃ/
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- Her name begins with the letter H, which is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Her name is Sarah, but with no H at the end of it.
- Her name is Sarah, but with no H at the end of it.
- We don't want a deficient happy life happy with, you could say a lower case H We want the whole thing.
Examples
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So if you take the "p" and add it to the "h," the "o" and the "e"...
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And where did she lose her Christian name's initial H?
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Her name is Sarah, but with no H at the end of it.
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And she even has an initial, "H."
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My dad called me "H."
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The Germans, of course, use the letter H for our B natural, meaning B flat when they say B.
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Ah so that's H then?
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Lisa Hoberman, with an H.
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They drop their h's in France.
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MORGAN: A capital H.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Informal
A mild, funny phrase people say instead of swearing when surprised or angry
Surface Forms
Etymology
H comes from an ancient sign that meant 'fence' or 'hedge' because its old shape looked a little like a simple fence. That's why h is the letter that often marks the 'h' sound at the start of words like hat, even though it can be silent in words like 'honest'.