What's the difference between hath and heath?

Hath


Definition:

  • (3d pers. sing. pres.) Has.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (2) Once more the English disease of giving to him that hath, particularly in London or the golden triangle.
  • (3) Photograph: Heritage Lottery Fund The cottage in Grasmere – which the poet called “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found” – was once a pub called the Dove and Olive Branch.
  • (4) Hell hath no fury like a mad techie scorned and, once the bill had passed, attention shifted to listing MPs who had vote no, or not voted at all – particularly those in marginal seats such as Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson.
  • (5) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November.
  • (6) A case of hell hath no fury like the former partner who isn't getting enough attention these days?
  • (7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
  • (8) Hell hath no fury like a Hollywood studio prevented from making vast amounts of money, in this case from slot machines based on beloved literary legacies.
  • (9) The property managers decided to tweet an appeal for people to help identify the text, and Breslin said that within an hour a tweet came back saying "Try Genesis 30:6", which reads: "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son."
  • (10) "F alsehood flies," wrote Jonathan Swift 300 years ago, "and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."
  • (11) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
  • (12) As senator Madigan hath stated ‘Submarines are the spaceships of the oceans’.
  • (13) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
  • (14) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like a nation scorned,” Salmond told a rapturous audience at Perth conference hall as he handed over power to his successor as party leader, Nicola Sturgeon.
  • (15) "For whosoever hath, to [her] shall be given … but whosoever hath not, from [her] shall be taken away even that [she] hath."
  • (16) Hell hath no fury like a room full of disappointed Star Wars acolytes: a Disney boss at a high profile convention in California has been booed after admitting he had nothing new to tell fans about JJ Abrams' forthcoming Episode VII.
  • (17) David Cameron has briefed against his own chief whip, and may yet illustrate Jeremy Thorpe's quip about Harold Macmillan, an earlier Etonian premier: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his friends for his life."
  • (18) Verily, “For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath” ( Mark 4:25 ).
  • (19) My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal."
  • (20) Looking at her policies, I can only imagine her favourite Bible verse to be Matthew 25:29: “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” Austerity isn’t inevitable or even advisable, as the IMF, OECD and all the rest will tell you.

Heath


Definition:

  • (n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
  • (n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
  • (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
  • (3) 10.54am GMT Among other things, Heath’s measure would improve the transparency of the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates complaints from members of the public made against the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ .
  • (4) Both Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory leader Edward Heath had stayed on in the chamber to listen to him.
  • (5) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
  • (6) Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.
  • (7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
  • (8) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
  • (9) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
  • (10) Osborne expressed the same sort of sentiments on Thursday, although it appears he used a private breakfast with 30 business leaders to deliver a bit of a pep talk rather than a Heath-style tirade at business ingratitude.
  • (11) The Liberal party rebelled against getting into bed with the Tories, Heath was forced to call for the removal vans and was subsequently sacked as Conservative leader.
  • (12) With the backing of the Met's then commissioner, Sir (now Lord) Paul Condon, warrants were obtained for the planting of listening devices in Southern's offices in Thornton Heath, south west London.
  • (13) Over the course of a month between 30 May and 30 June, he visited cash machines at Barclays, the Post Office, Tesco, Morrisons, TSB and Nationwide in Small Heath, Sparkbrook and Yardley Wood.
  • (14) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
  • (15) "I was obviously, having worked with Ted Heath, committed to Europe.
  • (16) Burnham, the shadow heath secretary, received 68 nominations from MPs, mainly from the north.
  • (17) It was provoked by the government in order to take revenge for the 1972 and 1974 miners' strikes, which destroyed the Heath government's incomes policy and brought it down.
  • (18) Saleem, 82, was killed on 29 April, as he walked from a mosque to his home in Small Heath just after 10pm.
  • (19) A central issue is to establish why five "conditioning techniques" – hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, and white noise – inflicted on IRA suspects and banned in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, were used on Iraqi detainees.
  • (20) In this, Dalgliesh investigates a killing in a privately run crime museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, London.