Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height

[Tino]

*Kayenneh silently skips away, since English is her third language, and she can't vouch for her own accent or pronunciation

Kayenneh's written english is awesome

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Look Tino at work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0l_vPyUmg

LMFAO! Why can't real life be like this?

[Kayenneh]

Kayenneh's written english is awesome

Thank you, but I can't take the credit for it. Without Google Chrome's spell check, my English would not be so awesome

[pgrimes15]

Height with a "th" sound is common in British English, in fact both are used.

Err . . . I've never heard it pronounced like that despite living in UK (southeast, London, midlands) all my life (52 years). If someone used that pronunciation with me I would probably think they were saying "hive".

While I'm here and we're talking about pet peeves, I wish americans would stop saying "oriented" when they mean "orientated".
The "orient" is a synonym for the east. Therefore to "orient" something would be to make it eastern.
To "orientate" something is to align it in a particular direction.

It's an extra syllable and a little bit of a mouthful, but talking does require some effort - it's what distinguishes us from the animals.

Regards

Grimesy

[Faith No More]

I don't get it either. My father says that many of his co-workers pronounce 'wash' as 'warsh', even when part of a word, like 'warshington' instead of 'washington'. It's just part of a dialect...I think. (Do dialects require a certain percentage of people in the area to speak that way?)

It's a southern American thing. It might even be just a central southern thing, like Texas and Oklahoma. My grandparents are competely incapable of saying anything with 'wash' in it without throwing in that 'r,' and they're from Texas.