Aht vs Ait - What's the difference?

aht | ait |

As an adverb aht

is .

place, area.

(en adverb)

* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=W. Somerset Maugham, title=Liza of Lambeth, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage='Git aht !' said Liza, pushing him away, not too gently. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=H. G. Wells, title=Ann Veronica, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Kick aht at 'em!" though, indeed, she went now with Christian meekness, resenting only the thrusting policemen's hands. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Look aht , Percy," enjoined a hollow but reassuring voice, "'ere comes another!" }}

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(wikipedia ait) (en noun)

An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

* R. Hodges (1649)

The ait where the osiers grew.

* 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,

Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .

* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.

(Scotland) An oat.

(Burns)

* eyot

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