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Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
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Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 5:52 pm (This post was last modified: September 30, 2012 at 5:53 pm by Tino.)
Has anyone else noticed that more and more people are pronouncing "height", which rhymes with "bite", as as "high-th" It's like the brain is locking into the idea of height and width, and giving both a soft "th" sound. This needs to stop! Who's with me? We need to protect our English language. <---- Inserted to deliberately iron those who find the statement ironic.
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September 30, 2012 at 6:03 pm (This post was last modified: September 30, 2012 at 6:04 pm by Darkstar.)
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?)
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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Nope, never noticed this but now of course I'll start to listen out for it and probably notice it all the time. I've given up wishing a horrible death for people who say 'haitch' for the letter H though.
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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm
*Kayenneh silently skips away, since English is her third language, and she can't vouch for her own accent or pronunciation
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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm
The 'th' sounds are the fastest disapearing across the english speaking world. Its a shame in that it is older than the english language itself, but on the other hand I would not like english to become as restricted as French which is becoming unable to develop.
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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Oh, and people saying pronounciation instead of pronunciation Angry
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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:22 pm
This is another thread that's going to play merry hell with my blood pressure, isn't it?

I've not come across this strange new pronunciation though. Then again, it's not really a word that often comes up in any conversation that people are likely to have with me.
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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:27 pm (This post was last modified: September 30, 2012 at 6:27 pm by Darwinian.)
And another thing, English people who don't stress the first syllable of a multi syllable words such as harassment or controversy or who pronounce the 'c' in schedule.

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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
September 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Height with a "th" sound is common in British English, in fact both are used. No idea where the Queen stands on the issue though, as I ain't posh. It's spelt "height" though. E.g. "He didn't have sufficient heig{th} to..."

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RE: Pet Peeve: "Hythe" vs. Height
October 4, 2012 at 4:05 am
Look Tino at work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0l_vPyUmg
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