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OP I have a King Charles' Head to air: when people pronounce "height" as if it had an H on the end (sounding like eighth), rather than ending with the same sound as tight or weight. Webster's gives both pronunciations, and I assume it comes from people saying things like "height and width and depth" and just making them all sound alike, but it still causes me excruciating pain (it now occurs to me I ought to have raised this in the excruciating pain thread, but such resurrections seem to be frowned upon).
Anyone else driven mad by this, or similar crimes against the little bits of logic the English language can lay claim to?
Can anyone else end all of the paragraphs in a post with a preposition, even when finishing up?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Pronunciation of "height" Hyla 02/09/01 12:10 AM Re: Pronunciation of "height" tsuwm 02/09/01 12:45 AM Re: Pronunciation of "height" maverick 02/09/01 12:48 AM Re: "The American Language" tsuwm 02/09/01 01:00 AM Re: "The American Language" maverick 02/09/01 11:48 AM Re: Pronunciation of "height" wsieber 02/09/01 07:36 AM Re: Pronunciation of "height" Bobyoungbalt 02/09/01 03:30 PM Re: Pronunciation of "height" paulb 02/10/01 10:17 AM Re: Pronunciation of "height" wwh 02/09/01 12:47 AM
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