It seems to me that the 'tch' behaves in English spelling the way a doubled consonant would, and the 'ch' the way a single consonant would. That is, 'tch' is more likely to occur after short vowels, so you see patch, botch, and crutch, but beach, roach, and pooch.
This has been bothering me (a native English speaker) for a long time. It seems almost impossible outside of dialogue to describe the act of unconsciously spitting out a "Tch!" in respons...
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A competing analysis would be that "tch" is a trigraph where all three letters function together to represent the single sound [t͡ʃ]. In the first analysis, "t" is a silent letter.
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While I know you can attribute 'bitch' to a male, I feel there is a sense of femininity. I was wondering if there is a colloquial equivalent that describes someone with the qualities of a 'bitch'
The spelling with -tch doesn't always correspond to OE geminates, as there are words like "stitch" < stice or "pitch" < pic. Nor does the spelling with -ch always correspond to a preceding long vowel in OE; this is true for "rich," "lich," and "-wich", but "which" has a completely different history with a lost /l/.
Like really early. On the very same day, a YouTube video by Madeline Mann, entitled: “My Struggle With Resting B*tch Face”, was posted. In the video she utters the initialism, RBF, and confesses earnestly to the camera So, erm, this song is about, er... well, I've been told that I have an RBF, which is a ‘resting bitch face’.