I’ve never seen it written that way, love to read, was an EMT, went to college, etc… Just saying I missed that somewhere and often saw hiccup, even in EMT educational textbooks.
This I return to my original: who says hiccough? I’m relatively well read and have some exposure to biology and medical professional context, and never saw it that way
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 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 it’s outdated and dead.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
Who says hiccough
it’s pronounced “hiccup” but some people don’t respect the spelling and write it phonetically.
I’ve never seen it written that way, love to read, was an EMT, went to college, etc… Just saying I missed that somewhere and often saw hiccup, even in EMT educational textbooks.
They are both valid spellings
This I return to my original: who says hiccough? I’m relatively well read and have some exposure to biology and medical professional context, and never saw it that way
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
I like boobies too and am bored of this
UK here; hiccough is definitely what I’ve seen and been taught, perhaps it’s a geographical thing?
A mystery unraveling
I’d argue that even cough and rough are different. There’s probably more.
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”.
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 it’s outdated and dead.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”