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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?
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