hiccup or hiccough

United States
August 8, 2013 1:35am CST
hiccup or hiccough....... show your roots, which way do you spell it? (i am a hiccough type of gal...)...and am deeply disturbed that firefox's spell check does not recognize both, even though dictionary.com recognizes both....
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La de Boheme
@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
8 Aug 13
I'm a phonetic type of gal. I spell it like I say it. HICCUP! (Excuse me )
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Sherry
@Sherry130520 (12)
• Shenzhen, China
10 Aug 13
oh... it's very difficult to recognize those words for me....
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jim bo45
@jimbo45reborn (352)
• Aberdeen, Scotland
11 Aug 13
hiccup omg now i cannae stop H E L P !!!
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Shasta
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
10 Aug 13
Hiccup for me. Hiccough is right too. It's just that to me they are different. A hiccough is a half hiccup and half cough. There is also the hicburp.
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inertia4
@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
25 Jul 15
I know this is an old post but, I spell it hiccup. Hiccough I only heard on the Honeymooners. I think it was Ed Norton that said it. I am sure you know the Honeymooners.
Nancy Zink
@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
4 Aug 19
I have always heard it as hicup, I never heard it the other way and it is not a cough so I wouldn't say hiccough.