Wight and Wiht is white? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Wight is etymologically unrelated to white The former is pronounced waɪt ; the latter is pronounced waɪt (the same as wight) or, in certain conservative accents, hwaɪt or ʍaɪt (the transcriptions hw and ʍ don't contrast; the difference is just that the transcription hw implies analyzing the "wh" sound as two phonemes, and the transcription ʍ implies analyzing the "wh
Origin of the phrase Thats mighty white of you. . . Assessment Hamlin Garland grew up in the U S Midwest, moved to Boston in 1884 at the age of 24, moved to Chicago in 1893, and traveled to the Yukon in 1898 "to witness the Klondike Gold Rush" (according to Wikipedia)
Correct usage of lbs. as in pounds of weight I suggest writing 2 3 kg instead of any of 5 lbs , 5lbs , 5 lb or 5lb Historically, however, the forms “5 lb” and “5 lbs” appear to have been used more than either of the others (according to ngrams for 5 lbs,5lbs,5lb,5 lb,5 lb
differences - Isle vs. Island - Isle vs. Island - English Language . . . In modern everyday use 'Isle' tends to be included in the name by which the place is known, such as the ones you mention plus the Isle of Skye, Isle of Mull, Isle of Wight etc (No one says simply 'Wight' to refer to the Isle of Wight, nor 'Man' to refer to the Isle of Man )
word choice - What Is the Real Name of the #? - English Language . . . There’s also the whole set of apothecary measures, whence some of this derives That’s why a troy ounce is exactly 480 grains and a troy pound 5,760 grains, while an avoirdupois ounce has 437½ grains and a pound avoirdupois exactly 7,000 grains
etymology - What is the origin of the 7 8 9 joke? - English Language . . . Barry Popik, in "Entry from May 09, 2016", mentions the joke is in the 19 January 1986, Chicago (IL) Tribune I observe an appearance of a version of the joke in The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, New Jersey) of 20 Dec 1980:
single word requests - What is the male equivalent of damsel . . . Wight is a near-equivalent, going by the dictionary The problem is that damsel has heavy connotations of pretty but useless, and (obviously) there are no men who could be described so Edit: the word is Anglo-Saxon, and since man means pretty much the same, wight was never very common Chambers defines it as "man (archaic or dialect
greetings - Whats an appropriate response to a British person asking . . . I'm living in Brussels, but travel to the South of England quite a bit I heard it a lot on the Isle of Wight this summer for instance I thought of it this morning because a British coworker (we work near each other on the same floor, but we never work on the same projects) passed me briefly in hall and said "you alright?" and it caught me off