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- Height and Weight - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used He was a 6-foot 5-inch man (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens ) She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce baby (Not: 7-pound-11-ounce baby, with three hyphens ) And, it should be, I believe: He is 6 feet 5 inches tall (Not: 6 feet, 5 inches tall )
- 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 These examples show that when words are
- Pronunciation of height as hate - English Language Usage Stack . . .
If I heard somebody (apparently) say "The hate of the tower is 300 metres", I would know that they were saying "height" That pronunciation sounds, to me, a southern English RP speaker, like Irish (particularly Northern Irish), Scottish, or perhaps Newcastle ("Geordie") regional pronunciation
- Does one hyphenate height when given in feet and inches?
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 – TrevorD Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 14:13
- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and . . .
In describing the box or cube, you would use height, length, breadth, width and depth, with breadth, width and depth being interchangeable I would use a diagram or key to specify what you mean in your particular case x = breadth; y = height; z = depth
- grammatical number - Height and weight written out - English Language . . .
In formal writing I like to do this (in British style): The infant weighed 10lb 5oz; a 10lb 5oz infant He was 6ft 3in tall; a 6ft 3in man My question is about the plural usage: do we
- elevation vs altitude - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is a barometric measurement expressed relative to the height of a runway or mean sea level in a given location or region (taking into account current local atmospheric conditions), or to an arbitrary standard datum (to eliminate the effect of localised variations in air pressure)
- differences - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
For example, the word height in proper speech is approximately [hait], but it's often pronounced something like [haitθ] This is due to influence by other words denoting qualities of measurement ( length, width, depth ) which all end in [θ]
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