My original list of possible H’s, before my theme was words of 10 letters or more from my dictionary, consisted of:
Holy/ Holly/ Hail/ Harry/ Hearing/ Hungry/ Herrings/ Hammers/ Horror/ Hair/ Horny/ Handmade/ Happy/ Horse
Then came:
horse rad ish
‘tall plant of the Cruciferae family, with a white, hot-tasting root that is ground up and used as a relish with meat, oysters, etc.’
hig gle dy-pig gle dy
‘in jumbled confusion.’
and
het er o ge ne ous
‘different in kind; unlike; not at all similar; varied; miscellaneous; made up of unlike elements or parts.’
It was heterogeneous which got me thinking.
It’s interesting that I’ve never really read this dictionary much before. Used it many times but never really studied it. There are many words that have few words to explain them and then there’s heterogeneous with 6 different explanations. What was it about this word that created that reaction from Thorndike as he compiled my dictionary? I have no idea and will never know but am intrigued by it.
I’ve never thought too much of H but I love it now!
Happy; Horse; higgledy-piggledy; horseradish; heterogeneous (did you notice I moved the first e? deliberately? Maybe.. maybe not..) and Hazelnut all go to confirm that H has to be heard!
follow the AtoZchallenge road..
lynnelives 