No, we all say hiccup. FFS, googling “hiccough” essentially autocorrects to hiccup. If everyone spells it hiccup and also pronounces it hiccup, literally no one is using “hiccough”.
No you can’t. Not in the same way. “Thru” is an informal word, similar to writing “gud 2 c u”.
How about you at least try something that’s not blatantly inequivalent. If I Google “thru”, what can I expect to find? If I run both through a dictionary, what can I expect to find? If I poll the general public on each, which one would be accepted as a proper spelling? What would I have to do to both “thru” and “hiccup” be treated as equals here?
That doesn’t change the original spelling, or the fact that they’re pronounced the same
I said nothing about an original spelling. But if you’re calling it the original spelling, you’re kinda just conceding that “Hiccough” is the original and “hiccup” is the current.
no one uses hiccough. it’s outdated and dead. Just as in the future no one will use “surewhynotlem” and will instead use the proper and more agreed upon spelling “donebrach”
Through, though, hiccough, slough, bough, and cough don’t rhyme
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it’s pronounced “hiccup” but some people don’t respect the spelling and write it phonetically.
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UK here; hiccough is definitely what I’ve seen and been taught, perhaps it’s a geographical thing?
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They are both valid spellings
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what do you mean by “says”? everyone in English says “hik-up”
some people spell it hiccough and others hiccup.
I was just saying why you wouldn’t have seen it
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Nobody says hiccough.
Literally everyone says that word. They just pronounce it hiccup.
No, we all say hiccup. FFS, googling “hiccough” essentially autocorrects to hiccup. If everyone spells it hiccup and also pronounces it hiccup, literally no one is using “hiccough”.
Sure sure. And you can spell through as thru as well. That doesn’t change the original spelling, or the fact that they’re pronounced the same.
No you can’t. Not in the same way. “Thru” is an informal word, similar to writing “gud 2 c u”.
How about you at least try something that’s not blatantly inequivalent. If I Google “thru”, what can I expect to find? If I run both through a dictionary, what can I expect to find? If I poll the general public on each, which one would be accepted as a proper spelling? What would I have to do to both “thru” and “hiccup” be treated as equals here?
I said nothing about an original spelling. But if you’re calling it the original spelling, you’re kinda just conceding that “Hiccough” is the original and “hiccup” is the current.
Thru is informal, today. Hiccup was informal years ago. Language progresses.
no one uses hiccough. it’s outdated and dead. Just as in the future no one will use “surewhynotlem” and will instead use the proper and more agreed upon spelling “donebrach”
I’d argue that even cough and rough are different. There’s probably more.