This vs Thish - What's the difference?
this | thish |
The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a ... ".
(Of a unit of time) which is .
To the degree or extent indicated.
The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
(philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
* 2001 , James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (page 151)
(Internet slang)
(dated, fandom slang)
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1961
, date = November-December
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
, title =
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy3-30.jpeg
, volume =
, issue = 3
, page = 30
, passage = Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish , but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1996
, date = March
, first = R. Graeme
, last = Cameron
, authorlink =
, magazine = The Space Cadet Gazette
, title = Editorial
, url = http://efanzines.com/SpaceCadet/SpaceCadet05.pdf
, volume = 3
, issue = 1 (whole number 5)
, page = 2
, passage = I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.
}}
(dated, fandom slang)
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1953
, date = August
, first = D.
, last = Clarkson
, authorlink =
, magazine =
, title = [letter]
, url =
, volume = 42
, issue = 3
, page = 135
, passage = Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches!
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1955
, date = Spring
, first = Pat
, last = Scott
, authorlink =
, magazine =
, title = Pat Me Gently [letter]
, url = http://archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_6_Number_10_
, volume = 6
, issue = 10
, page = 92
, passage = Only story I really enjoyed in thish was THE VANISHER.
}}
As nouns the difference between this and thish
is that this is something being indicated that is here; one of these while thish is A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.As a determiner this
is the (thing) here used in indicating something or someone nearby.As an adverb this
is to the degree or extent indicated.As a pronoun this
is the thing, item, etc. being indicated.As an interjection this
is Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.this
English
(wikipedia this)Determiner
Derived terms
* thisness *Adverb
(-)- I need this much water.
- We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.
Pronoun
(en-pron)- This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear ,
Act 1. Scene 2.
Noun
(es)- Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.
