What the Dickens! - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
WEBDec 14, 2011 — All three forms of the word — height, heighth, hight — were long used, but in truth, only the last of those has completely fallen away. For while the OED no longer admits hight as a modern spelling, it does present both height and heighth as admissible variants, with -th listed second.
american english - How to express someone's height in metric
WEBOct 24, 2015 — If someone is 169cm tall, what is the most common way of saying their height in metres and centimetres in American/Australian/British English? I'm not interested in converting metres (meters) and centimetres (centimeters) into feet and inches, which would be “five foot six” (5'6"), I know how to say and write that.
What is a single word which can properly describe age, height, …
WEBI am completing a final assignment for a statistics course, and need a single word to describe age, height, weight and BMI (body mass index).
Origin of "height" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
WEBAccording to Etymonline, Height, has many different possible origins. height (n.) Old English hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven," from root of heah "h...
Pronunciation of "height" as "hate" - English Language & Usage …
WEBMay 6, 2019 — A pet peeve of mine is that a colleague at work keeps pronouncing "height" the same as the word "hate" whenever he speaks English. I corrected him once, but he keeps using his pronunciation.
Height and Weight - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
WEBHeight and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used. He was a 6-foot 5-inch man. (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens.) She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce baby. (Not...
horizontal, vertical, distal - English Language & Usage Stack …
WEBJan 31, 2012 — In describing the box or cube, you would use height, length, breadth, width and depth, with breadth, width and depth being interchangeable. I would use a diagram or key to specify what you mean in your particular case.
"It’s the height of the season"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...
WEB1. " Now is the height of the blueberry season, when they are common and tasty." (actually the season's nearly over by now: go and pick blueberries, rather than surfing the net). in the northeastern USA the blueberry season is July and early August, depending on location. It's peak strawberry season right now.
Which to use: "altitude" or "elevation" in regards to height above …
WEBThe altitude is the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level; the elevation is the height above a given level, especially the sea level. The flight data include airspeed and altitude. It is a network of microclimates created by …
Pronunciation of the words 'height' and 'weight'
WEBDec 6, 2014 — Why is "height" an "weight" pronounced differently, when the spellings are so similar? Is there any logical explanation or it evolved that way?