Times 25896

[cashier]

27ac Careful to eat less, wages coming in being short (8)


D?S?R?E?

2dn Involuntary movement of countryman towards town, we hear (8)

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Thanks again in advance

[factor-fiction]

discreet

[factor-fiction]

hicc something?

[Mamyalynne]

Hiccough

Pronounced

Hick Up (going up to big town)

[factor-fiction]

hiccough?

[factor-fiction]

I didn't realise that was also pronounced 'hiccup'

[decmangan]

Hiccough?

[Mamyalynne]

Never heard anyone say they have Hic coughs

[factor-fiction]

Nor me, but I've seen the word in books/dictionary and wondered why they didn't just put 'hiccup' if that was how it was pronounced

[Mamyalynne]

//It's pronounced "hik-cup", with the standard spelling being "hiccup".
Given recent research into etymological history, it is considered to be an error to spell the word as "hiccough" - the word, in this spelling, derives from the thought that perhaps the condition of "hiccuping" was derived from the same symptoms as coughing.//