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This may be one reason, besides orthographic brevity, that American English has changed doughnuts to donuts and hiccough to hiccup .
The U.S. economy, perhaps as a result, didn't even hiccup, while the stock market, which had plummeted in the wake of Asian turmoil, Russian devaluation, and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, came roaring back.
The Telegraph also voiced the United Nations' reaction to the scenario, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling it a "hiccup."
Will this hiccup lead Starr to offer Congress a preliminary report?
Is all of The Limey a temporal hiccup?