- 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, 6 months ago
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- american english - How to express someones height in metric - English . . .
12 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
- 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
- Origin of height - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- 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)
- Does one hyphenate height when given in feet and inches?
Please provide the context for your quotation Also, have you considered the audience for your work? Many non-American readers may not understand that *five-one" means "five feet one inch"; British readers might, but even in Britain a person's height is now given in metres
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