- Height and Weight - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used Ask Question Asked 11 years, 4 months ago Modified 4 years, 7 months ago
- orthography - Spelling of high vs height - English Language Usage . . .
So height is spelled as a compromise, maintaining the pronunciation of "hight" while being spelled with ei to reflect the Old English ties The ei form is older--as the OED notes, hight was created in later assimilation with the word high High, on the other hand, maintains its Middle English roots
- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and . . .
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
- Pronunciation of height as hate - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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 We hav
- punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the United States, most style guides that I have encountered recommend including the second hyphen in situations such as "8-foot-long bridge " Here is how some guides frame their advice From The Associated Press Stylebook (2002): dimensions Use figures and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc , to indicate depth, height, length, and width Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns [Relevant
- What is a single word which can properly describe age, height, weight . . .
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)
- meaning - Difference between floor and storey - English Language . . .
I've read once about "x stories" Want to know if there is any difference between stories and floors Or they are just alias for each other used in different variations of English language?
- Pronunciation of the words height and weight
Why is "height" an "weight" pronounced differently, when the spellings are so similar? Is there any logical explanation or it evolved that way?
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