Author Topic: The funny/strange/interesting/random pictures thread (Read 2809492 times)

Hiccup is a word imitative of the sound, first documented by the OED in 1580 as replacing an earlier Hiccock which had cognates in Dutch, Old Norse, etc..
Hiccough is a respelling by the ignorant anxious to suggest an incorrect etymology and is first found around the time (mid 17th century) when GH had survived its general demise in a few words (rough, tough, cough) by mispronunciation as F.Fowler's "Modern English Usage" derides this spelling as a popular error that ought to be shunned. It may be more frequent in British than in North American English, but that does not make it in any way "correct."
I find to my disgust and amazement that my Yahoo word processor approves of the abominable "hiccough."

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110818195029AAVrPQu

Centurion · « **Reply #2487 on:** July 23, 2013, 10:24:48 PM »

K as in Kaplan
A as in archipelago
P an in pneumonia
L as in walk
A
N

jj1000 · « **Reply #2488 on:** July 24, 2013, 12:39:03 AM »

Quote from: good sam on July 23, 2013, 03:32:43 PM

Here's a guy who pretty passionately disagrees with you:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110818195029AAVrPQu

Now you really lost me. A random guy on the internet is deciding what should and shouldn't be in the English dictionary, and you are quoting him to probe what? That a joke can't be true, because a word in the dictionary isn't suppose to be there?

Words are added to the dictionary all the time. Even for stupid reasons. That doesn't make it any less of a word.

Ex. dis
/dis/
Verb
Act or speak in a disrespectful way toward.
Noun

MarkS · « **Reply #2489 on:** July 24, 2013, 07:37:11 PM »

good sam · « **Reply #2490 on:** July 25, 2013, 05:24:44 PM »

Quote

Former President George H.W. Bush is shown with the 2-year-old son of a member of Bush's Secret Service detail. Bush recently had his head shaved to show support for the boy, who lost hair because of leukemia treatments.