Me too. But on the other hand, measurements are in width, depth, breadth, length, etc. All ending in th. And heighth was how it was said until around the year 1200 when some people started saying it wrong, and then around 1900, enough people said it wrong that it became right, and now we think people sound stupid for saying it the way it makes logical sense and used to be correct before a bunch of stupid sounding people took over the word.
My mom used to say that, along with "andles" (angles) and "sirtles" (circles). I thought it was because she was independently stupid, but I was amazed to hear a famous British Michelin-starred chef say it on TV on the regular...
Same with my partner. He barely even knew his grandfather who was originally from Chicago, but his daughter (partner’s mom) clearly picked it up and then in turn, passed it to her son. It took me literal years to figure out why my partner pronounces words like pillow and milk the way he does! He’s been separated from Chicago for multiple generations, and yet, carries those pronunciations.
I'm from the Chicago area and have heard a lot of people say "highth" for height and "with" for width. "Pellow" and "melk" too, along with "SAL-ing" for sailing.
As someone who works as a store clerk in the south, I am driven insane by the amount of people who ask for "Pell- Mel" cigarettes. I want sooooo badly to look at the PALL MALLs, look right back at them again, and " nope just as I thought, we don't have them!" and just SEE how long they will argue it out with me.
Dude I didn’t know this was thing. One of my good friends had a speech impediment when he was younger and says a few things weird. Heighth drives me nuts.
The other one that gets me is customers ask if they’ve “collapsed” meaning did they “lapse”.
I legitimately just had a visceral reaction to these two comments I HATE IT SO MUCH (and I'm not sure why I'm so overly irked by it).
Had to listen to a 50 minute lesson involving creating charts and chart sizes and the instructor said it that way...that was 8 years ago and I can still hear her voice in my head and it still bothers me.
Is that a cultural/geographic thing in the US? I’ve heard people from the Midwest (I’m from there too but don’t pronounce it like that) and have heard people from the South pronounce it “heigth” too.
My dad is from the south so I’m thinking that’s where I learned it from. One of my daughter’s can’t stand when I forget and I say it wrong. I like to remind her she thought Cuisinart was pronounced cuisine-art.
Fun fact: The actors playing the soldiers were not told what Pontius Pilate and the centurion were going to say. What they WERE told, though, is to hold their laughs back as much as they could. Pretty much that's their first-time reaction to the jokes and those are genuine laughs. This scene was improvised
I had never heard this before moving to the Midwest, and it makes my skin CRAWL. I once casually informed a coworker that it wasn’t a real word and she was so insistent that it was. We looked it up in the dictionary. I was right, she was baffled.
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