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  1. single word requests - Verb for the act of making a "Tch" sound ...

    Aug 26, 2017 · For example: Bob tch'ed at Mary's absurd suggestion. John merely tch'ed at the punchline and returned to his work. Sally tch'ed and rolled her eyes. "He can't be serious!" In want of …

  2. pronunciation - Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t? - English ...

    Jul 14, 2024 · A competing analysis would be that "tch" is a trigraph where all three letters function together to represent the single sound [t͡ʃ]. In the first analysis, "t" is a silent letter.

  3. How did the silent 't' come into all these 'tch' words?

    It seems to me that the 'tch' behaves in English spelling the way a doubled consonant would, and the 'ch' the way a single consonant would. That is, 'tch' is more likely to occur after short vowels.

  4. single word requests - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    May 5, 2014 · While I know you can attribute 'bitch' to a male, I feel there is a sense of femininity. I was wondering if there is a colloquial equivalent that describes someone with the qualities of a 'bitch'

  5. Word for sound made by tongue and teeth

    Jul 5, 2017 · Is the sound made just at one side of the mouth? In the situation you describe I would make a 'click' or 'pop' sound by placing the flat of my tongue against the roof of my mouth such that it …

  6. Why do we write "Tsk" for the sound of disapproval?

    The Full OED has this for their 1947 "first citation": L. Pike Phonemics ii. 41/1 Do you get..a sound resembling the noise of commiseration which is sometimes written in literature as ‘tsk-tsk’, or ‘tut-tut’. …

  7. Why is karma a bitch? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Also used as the rhetorical question Ain't karma a bitch? Synonyms: What goes around, comes around Getting his just desserts He had it coming and strongly related to Payback's a bitch It is likely a mix …

  8. Is there a WORD For: sound made by mouth to express demeaning …

    Feb 16, 2018 · The sound made by pushing middle tongue against palate, tip of tongue bent downward and pushed up against upper teeth and sucking in air sharply w/ mouth open, chin drops and holds …

  9. Origin and connotations of RBF (Resting Bitch Face)

    May 22, 2013 · Like really early. On the very same day, a YouTube video by Madeline Mann, entitled: “My Struggle With Resting B*tch Face”, was posted. In the video she utters the initialism, RBF, and …

  10. Where/when did the *idea* of bad words come from in English?

    Bad Words: f*ck sh*t *ss d*mn b*tch ... Ok, so there's no point in listing them all. The thing I'm interested in is this: Why is it that in English we have a strong sense of a group of words t...