Harken vs X - What's the difference?
harken | x |
‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
* 1833 :
* 1883:
* 1942 ,
(figuratively, US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
* 1994 , David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition , page 4
* 2005 , Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture , page 48
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
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As a noun harken
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.harken
English
Verb
(en verb)- Œnone Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
- We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and harken . But there was no unusual sound...
- ... whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved:
- The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college
- Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.
Usage notes
The bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back.References
* * Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of English usage, 1995,p. 497* “
Hark/Hearken”, Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage, (2nd Edition, November, 2008)