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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.
UK here; hiccough is definitely what I've seen and been taught, perhaps it's a geographical thing?
A mystery unraveling
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
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".
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.
And you can spell through as thru as well.
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.
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 it’s outdated and dead.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”