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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 20103rd bought with hiccups tonite
Don't you hate when they spell it "hicoughs?"  SignatureYours, Dan S. There are 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't. DanS. added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on 7/27/2010 in writing > Don't you hate when they spell it "hicoughs?" oops, hiccoughs SignatureYours, Dan S. There are 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't. DanS. added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on 7/27/2010 in writing > DanS. added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on 7/27/2010 in > writing >> Don't you hate when they spell it "hicoughs?" > > oops, hiccoughs Oh, and bout and tonight - thank goodness y'all ain't dumn SignatureYours, Dan S. There are 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't. DanS. escribió: > DanS. added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on > 7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Oh, and bout and tonight - thank goodness y'all ain't dumn Dan, what are you wibbling on about? SignaturePablo > DanS. escribió: >> DanS. added: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> > Dan, what are you wibbling on about? He's explaining the hiccoughs. CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on 7/27/2010 in writing >> DanS. escribió: >>> DanS. added: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> > He's explaining the hiccoughs. I hate that spelling. SignatureYours, Dan S. There are 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't. >CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >I hate that spelling. Me, too. Why do some spell it that way, and then how do they pronounce it? Hiccups have nothing to do with coughing. They're really about cupping, whatever that might be. SignaturePosters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then lived in Western Pa. 10 years Indianapolis 7 years Chicago 6 years Brooklyn, NY 12 years Baltimore 26 years mm filted: >>CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >>7/27/2010 in writing >>> He's explaining the hiccoughs. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >pronounce it? Hiccups have nothing to do with coughing. They're >really about cupping, whatever that might be. ObFortyYearOldReference: in MAD Magazine's parody of "2001: A Space Odyssey", one of the characters worries that he's about to throw up, only to be told that since there's no "up" in space, he'll have to throw out instead.... I suppose one might also have cause to hiccout....r SignatureMe? Sarcastic? Yeah, right. >>CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >>7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> oops, hiccoughs n>>>>> >>>>> Oh, and bout and tonight - thank goodness y'all ain't dumn >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > pronounce it? Hiccups have nothing to do with coughing. They're > really about cupping, whatever that might be. According to the OED, the word appears to have started out as "hickock" and then gone through "hicket"/"hickot" and finally to "hicke up", "hikup", and "hickop", all in the 16th century. SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |Of course, over the first 10^-10 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |seconds and 10^-30 cubic Palo Alto, CA 94304 |centimeters it averages out to |zero, but when you look in kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com |detail.... (650)857-7572 | Philip Morrison http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ >> CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >> 7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > pronounce it? Hiccups have nothing to do with coughing. They're > really about cupping, whatever that might be. See if it can be connected to the kidneys; I have been told certain hiccups can be a sign of problems in that area. SignatureFrank ess >>> CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >>> 7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >See if it can be connected to the kidneys; I have been told certain >hiccups can be a sign of problems in that area. Thanks guys. At a certain point everytyhing is connected to the kidneys. My own kidneys have been redone some how so that my throat connects directly to them. I take a drink of water, they overflow into the ureter and out it comes. Takes only a second or so. SignaturePosters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then lived in Western Pa. 10 years Indianapolis 7 years Chicago 6 years Brooklyn, NY 12 years Baltimore 26 years >>> CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >>> 7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> pronounce it? Hiccups have nothing to do with coughing. They're >> really about cupping, whatever that might be. > See if it can be connected to the kidneys; I have been told certain > hiccups can be a sign of problems in that area. Only extreme ones; hiccups can occur in acute kidney failure. Peter. SignaturePeter Young, (BrE, RP), Consultant Anaesthetist, 1975-2004. (US equivalent: Certified Anesthesiologist) Cheltenham and Gloucester, UK. Now happily retired. http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk >>>> CDB added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >>>> 7/27/2010 in writing [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Only extreme ones; hiccups can occur in acute kidney failure. Something else to worry about: thanks, Peter! But, more seriously, on the matter of "hiccoughs", I was taught that it was false gentility combined with false technicalism: simple "hiccups" just didn't sound proper or formal to some ears. Oh, and over on talk.origins, one of the now very rare points of interest I gleaned was that the complaint is in some way related to, and evidence for, our descent from fish. If I'd learned more than that about it, I assure you I'd be telling you: sorry. SignatureMike. >DanS. added the following to the totality of all human wisdom on >7/27/2010 in writing >> Don't you hate when they spell it "hicoughs?" > >oops, hiccoughs Is that sort of typo a "hicco"? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) |
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