Ask question asked 12 years, 3 months ago modified 4 years, 5 months ago 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. The height of the season is the very best point within this period to pick blueberries, probably because there are the most, or they taste best It is more or less a dummy subject
You could say it means this time, just as in it is sunny in london. Why is height an weight pronounced differently, when the spellings are so similar Is there any logical explanation or it evolved that way? 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). 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 written out ask question asked 12 years, 7 months ago modified 6 years, 2 months 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. I’m wondering if there is a word used for using height to order something Just like we say alphabetical order for things arranged by their spelling, or chronological order for things arranged by t.
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