I was always under the impression that it was not a word- that HEIGHT is the actual word.

Anyone?

6/2/2006 1:21:40 PM

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=heighth

nope, no heighth

6/2/2006 1:22:16 PM

Your impression is correct.

6/2/2006 1:23:01 PM

You are a fucking moron if you had to seriously ask this question.

I can't believe I attend the same college as some of these people.

6/2/2006 1:24:43 PM

Yeah, that notwithstanding, I bet it would have taken less time to check dictionary.com than to post a thread.

6/2/2006 1:26:12 PM

btw, i considered it common english language to know that heighth doesn't exist. i just posted that link to prove my point.

6/2/2006 1:30:08 PM

you could have just gone and looked it up at the libary

motherfuck

6/2/2006 1:31:19 PM

Quote :

"[Q] From Les Dixon: “When I moved to Canada from the UK 25 years ago I noticed that some people, not many, used the word heighth rather than height. I don’t think I’d ever heard this in England and at first I thought it was just a slip of the tongue, but I now hear it more often, even by a television reporter on one occasion. The words width and length are correct, what about the word heighth? Was it ever used in the past?” [A] It was. In fact, until the end of the seventeenth century, highth or heighth were its standard spellings. The word was formed in Old English from high, plus -th, the exact analogue of width, breadth, and length. If word history were the only consideration, we all ought still to be using highth. The reason why we don’t comes down to dialect pronunciation in parts of Northern England in Middle English times, in which the -th ending was pronounced as /t/. In Southern England, it was said instead like the initial th in thumb. During the seventeenth century, the Northern form triumphed over the Southern, and the spelling followed suit. (Width and length didn’t follow because final dt is not a common consonant cluster in English and is hard to say.) However, heighth continued to be widely heard. Charles Dickens used it frequently—as here in Great Expectations: “Pip, I wish you ever well and ever prospering to a greater and a greater heighth”. It still exists in several English dialects down to the present day. It has also survived in parts of North America, which have tended to cling to older pronunciations. Because of its odd history, we can hardly argue that highth is truly an error, more an archaism. Though nearly everyone now spells it height, it’s not that uncommon to hear it said as among educated people in North America, and some authorities there consider it to be a permissible variant on the usual way of saying it. So strong is the ending that it is not unknown to hear people use coolth, a word which some dictionaries mark as archaic, but which has had a resurgence in favour in recent decades. "

6/2/2006 3:19:38 PM

It's not in the dictionary, but I'm cool if people wanna say it. I know what they means.

6/2/2006 3:21:46 PM

Quote :

"Canada"

/thread

6/2/2006 3:30:54 PM

no it's not and i fucking hate people who pronounce it with a th on the end

6/2/2006 3:56:32 PM

ehe, im going to get flamed for this, but i've always said heighth and i never really questioned whether it was a word or not
but im ocd when it comes to english so i will stop saying it

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 4:00 PM. Reason : ahhh]

6/2/2006 4:00:10 PM

^ same here

The funniest part of this post is the OP's username: abcdefg

6/2/2006 4:05:38 PM

hahaha my mom always says fuckin heighth. annoying as hell.

6/2/2006 4:10:26 PM

I have always said heighth as well. dunno why. guess I never really thought about it.

6/2/2006 4:15:55 PM

Why you people get so offended by the someone posing a question is beyond. It's as if tww belongs to you or something.

(then you're going to respond and say "stfu it does")

6/2/2006 4:31:34 PM

weighth

6/2/2006 6:42:07 PM

EhSteveth

6/2/2006 6:43:30 PM

threeve.

6/3/2006 8:13:25 AM

and the funny thing is: people were talking shit, but it was a more interesting question than almost any of you knew.

6/3/2006 8:18:14 AM

weightyth

6/3/2006 8:36:57 AM

Thanks all.

I was pretty certain it wasn't and yah I could have looked it up in the dictionary. It was far more fun to read your responses though.

Ronny:

You are a fucking moron if you had to seriously ask this question.

I can't believe I attend the same college as some of these people.

6/3/2006 8:53:10 AM

It should be: Length, Width, Hieth, Wayth, but that would make too much sense.

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 11:22 AM. Reason : and I don't really like the "y". Maybe a "aa" would be better.]

6/3/2006 11:21:57 AM

breadth

6/3/2006 12:28:55 PM

toasth

6/3/2006 4:41:58 PM

6/3/2006 7:40:25 PM

gooder " My dog is gooder that yours"

6/4/2006 7:45:58 AM

actually, HIGHTH is a word, and it is a variant of of height

according to dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=highth

however, highth is not found in the MW dictionary, but heighth (as abcdefg13 spelled it) is found by MW (but since I don't have a subscription to MW online i couldn't read the definition :beatup



[Edited on June 4, 2006 at 6:13 PM. Reason : ]

6/4/2006 6:07:40 PM

cheeseth

6/5/2006 4:40:15 AM

Thanketh everyone, thanketh youith

6/6/2006 9:33:33 AM

^^^ That's why I don't trust dictionary.com anymoreth.

[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 10:58 AM. Reason : .]

6/6/2006 10:58:30 AM

Quote :

"It should be: Length, Width, Hieth, Wayth, but that would make too much sense. [Edited on June 3, 2006 at 11:22 AM. Reason : and I don't really like the "y". Maybe a "aa" would be better."

It would be weith

6/6/2006 11:30:03 AM

"We were dressed in the heighth of fashion..." Alex de Large from Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange

6/10/2006 3:13:46 PM

I've never liked the "ei".

6/10/2006 5:12:49 PM