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From: richard@boulder.UUCP (Richard Byrd)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: More Regional Pronunciations - height-th
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 10:55:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 10:55:38 1984
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I had always assumed that the pronunciation of height-th for height
was influenced not by spelling but by analogy with length, width,
and depth.