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"Drop his aitches" nghĩa là gì?
26 Dec, 2020
Photo by Tarikul Raana on Unsplash
"Drop his aitches" = không phát âm được chữ h (aitches) -> nghĩa là ít học, quê mùa.
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This man takes more trouble to drop his aitches than ever his father did to pick them up.
She apparently also has the nicknames ‘Hollywood’ and ‘Fabulous,’ which means that poor Matt has to say those words like shibboleths (học thuyết lỗi thời), or like Eliza Doolittle trying not to drop her aitches.
Unlike so many of the older Portuguese he did not drop his aitches; but for all that he used quaint (cổ kính), evocative (gợi liên tưởng) words, like potah potah for puddle, and seemed to belong to a hermetical world neither Guyanese nor foreign.
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