From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!we13!burl!rcj
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.followup
Title: Re: Re: Heighth
Article-I.D.: burl.111
Posted: Tue Nov 30 14:22:09 1982
Received: Wed Dec  1 03:19:23 1982


(~= flame on!)
danny's letter attempting to justify the pronunciation of height as
"heighth" is ridiculous!  His justification (in part) follows:

			wide - widTH
			broad - breadTH
			high - ??

1) the corresponding entry is height.  It is NOT heighth so why should
you try to pronounce it that way?

2) if you are, (as i assume you are), trying to credit the English
language with some form of consistency, I strongly suggest that you
move to a country speaking Spanish or some other HALFWAY sane language.
You will have to accept English primarily as it is, or you will be
changing the whole thing to NEWSPEAK.  Witness these pronunciations:
(All with the root "ough")

cough		cof
bough		bow	/* sorry that i don't have characters to
rough		ruf	   show pronunciation correctly, use your
thorough	therO	   imagination.		*/
through		thrU

(.= flame off)

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