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[from SF fandom] A method of `marking' common words, i.e., calling attention to the fact that they are being used in a nonstandard, ironic, or humorous way. Originated in the fannish catchphrase "Bheer is the One True Ghod!" from decades ago. H-infix marking of `Ghod' and other words spread into the 1960s counterculture via underground comix, and into early hackerdom either from the counterculture or from SF fandom (the three overlapped heavily at the time). More recently, the h infix has become an expected feature of benchmark names (Dhrystone, Rhealstone, etc.); this is probably patterning on the original Whetstone (the name of a laboratory) but influenced by the fannish/counterculture h infix.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Some examples of use for the three meanings listed above.

• "H shio"- Let's have sex. Only used by young couples and only if they have been a couple for a while.
• "ano shaato wa chotto H da ne"- That shirt is quite sexy.
• "H!! Used, mostly by girls to playfully reprimand guys when they make suggestive comments. Is also used as a bit of dirty talk during sex. eg: "H!!", "no, you are H".

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See also: Η, η, ♥, Ĥ, ĥ, Ħ, ħ, ɥ, ɦ, ʜ, ʰ, Η, һ, Ђ, Њ, Ћ, Л, ю, ђ, њ, ћ, Ң, ң, Ҹ, ҹ, Һ, һ, ℋ, ℌ, ℍ, ℎ

AITCH / HAITCH

"H" or "h" is:

• The eighth letter and a consonant of the modern English alphabet
  See also: Hotel, Phonetic alphabet, Eta

• The atomic symbol for the element Hydrogen

• The metric system abbreviation for hecto, meaning 100

• The metric / SI symbol for the henry which measures electrical indictance

• A vitamin
  See also: Vitamin H, Biotin

• The symbol for Planck's constant = 6.626068 * 10^-34 m² kg / s

• The symbol for enthalpy or heat content

• In mathematics, it represents the set of quaternions

• The international license plate code for Hungary

• Slang for the opiate, Heroin

• The stage name of Ian Watkins of Steps

• The Canadian postal abbreviation for the metropolitan Montreal

• An undenominated United States postal stamp rate worth 33 cents and issued January 10, 1999

• The designation for the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, Missouri on American currency

• A United States military designation for a rotary winged aircraft (helicopter) or search and rescue aircraft
  Example: UH-1 Huey, AH-64D Apache Longbow, MH-53 Pave Low

• A common abbreviation for numerous words including: hack, hacker, half, ham, Hamiltonian, hand, harbor, hard, hardball, hardness, Haydn, haze, head, hearing, heart, hearts (♥), heaven, hecto, height, Hell, helpful, hematachometer, henry, hentai, hepatitis, hero, heterosexual, hex, hexadecimal, highlight, high risk, Hijrah, Hilfiger, hinge, Histidine, historical, history, high, hit, hoax, Hoboken, hog, hold, holder, holy, home, homo-, Honduras, honesty, honor, horizontal, horn, horrific, horse, hospital, hot, hotel, hour, hub, hue, humidity, hundred, hurricane, husband, hybrid, hyperopia, hyperphoria, hypodermic, magnetic field, and sulfur mustard

• See also: .h, 4-H, H. ^H, Generation H, H-Bomb, HHH, Local H, Preparation H, The H Word, Triple H
  /msg me any other H's or h's you can think of...

Values and Representations of "H" and "h"

• Morse Code: .... (dot dot dot dot)
• ASCII: 72 (uppercase), 104 (lowercase)
• Hexadecimal: 0x48 (uppercase), 0x68 (lowercase)
• Unicode: 0 (uppercase), D (lowercase)
• Semaphore: Left Hand Across/Low, Right Hand Out
• Phonic Alphabet: Hotel
• Scrabble: worth 4 points

• Braille:  * .
            * *
            . .

H (aitch)

, the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, th, as in shall, thing, thine (for zh see §274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.

The name (aitch) is from the French ache; its form is from the Latin, and this from the Greek H, which was used as the sign of the spiritus asper (rough breathing) before it came to represent the long vowel, Gr. Η. The Greek H is from Phenician, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically H is most closely related to c; as in E. horn, L. cornu, Gr. ke`ras; E. hele, v. t., conceal; E. hide, L. cutis, Gr. ky`tos; E. hundred, L. centum, Gr. 'e-kat-on, Skr. &csdot;ata.

H piece Mining, the part of a plunger pump which contains the valve.

© Webster 1913.

H Mus.

The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B.

© Webster 1913.