Also, have you considered the audience for your work For example, to answer the question, how tall are you? valid answers include British readers might, but even in britain a person's height is now given in metres.
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Recently i've noticed that many people are pronouncing the word 'height' as /haiθ/ that's right, heigth
I've only ever heard this pronunciation mistake in the last few years
7 i am completing a final assignment for a statistics course, and need a single word to describe age, height, weight and bmi (body mass index). Height and weight — how to write them when abbreviations are not used ask question asked 11 years, 7 months ago modified 4 years, 10 months ago Height and weight written out ask question asked 12 years, 6 months ago modified 6 years, 1 month ago So height is spelled as a compromise, maintaining the pronunciation of hight while being spelled with ei to reflect the old english ties
High, on the other hand, maintains its middle english roots. 70 when working in a 2d coordinate system you could say that x is the horizontal axis and y is the vertical axis Extending this to 3d, is there a similar word for the z axis (i'm aware of width, height and depth, but obviously horizontal and vertical aren't synonymous to width and height, which is why i don't want to call the z axis the depth.
According 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 hi. Why is height an weight pronounced differently, when the spellings are so similar Is there any logical explanation or it evolved that way?
