Thread: Width, Length and other Ambiguities
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Default Width, Length and other Ambiguities
On 3/24/10 12:18 PM, wrote:
Sooooo..... being nonprofessional, I found myself doing a double-take when
magazine articles use the word "width" when I would have expected "length",
or vice versa.


Sorry, this is a tangent....

A pet piece of mine is when "woodworkers"-- especially ones on TV
shows-- say the word, "heighth."

They think that somehow, because length, width, and depth, have a "th"
sound at the end, then so does height.
Sometimes, I'll jokingly say, "Hey, height only has two H's."


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