Length, Breadth, Width, and H----- ???

"Height" or "Heighth" ??

  • It's "height" with a nice hard "t" sound on the end

    Votes: 36 97.3%

  • It's "heighth" with the "th" sound on the end, just like all the other dimensional designators

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • It can be either/or. No biggie. Do what you want with it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Huh???

    Votes: 1 2.7%
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So is it "height" or "heighth" ????

I have always pronounced it "height." And yet for the past ten years I have been hearing people --including newscasters-- pronounce it as "heighth" even though there is no "h" at the end.

Thoughts??



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It has never been "heighth". If you are hearing newsies mispronounce the word, then you should understand that as a comment on their level of intelligence and education.
 
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Height is the word. It's the altered thingermajiggy form of high.
 
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If I heard a newscaster say heighth, I'd send them a snarky email.

<-----------once went at the local newspaper with a red pen and sent it back. Never heard anything from them, but it was worth it.
 
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I am messing with Joomla -- a content management system, meaning website concocting stuff (for you illiterates *wink*) -- and I just found an absolute horror.

Hard-coded into it is the word "heigth".

I am SO going to SCREAM
 

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PeterL said:
It has never been "heighth". If you are hearing newsies mispronounce the word, then you should understand that as a comment on their level of intelligence and education.
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Yeh. These are the same people who use the word strenth and Noter Dame.
 
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Hearing anyone say "heighth" makes me go nucular.
 
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I just voted, and it looks like there's a concensus of 27 votes. But the "human" poll has 61 votes, so statistically this possibly COULD change...
 
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It's height. And if I hear you pronounce it with a th, I will rip off your arm and beat you to death with the soggy end.

It's my hugest pet peeve about the way Americans speak.
 
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Yep. It's "height" - irregardless.
 
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:roll:

Lemme "warsh" it first.
 
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