2020-10-08 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด H - Height – heigth

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2020-10-08

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด H - Height – heigth

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ออกเสียง Height = ‘HAHYT’

ไม่มีคำ Heigth ในภาษา อังกฤษ

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SYNONYM STUDY FOR HEIGHT

Height, altitude, elevation

refer to distance above a level.

Height denotes extent upward (as from foot to head)

as well as any measurable distance above a given level:

The tree grew to a height of ten feet.

They looked down from a great height.

Altitude usually refers to the distance, determined by instruments,

above a given level, commonly mean sea level:

altitude of an airplane.

Elevation implies a distance to which something has been raised or uplifted above a level:

a hill's elevation above the surrounding country, above sea level.

USAGE NOTE FOR HEIGHT

Height, and not heighth, is considered the standard English form for this word.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for height

HEIGHT, ALTITUDE, ELEVATION

mean vertical distance either between the top and bottom of something

or between a base and something above it.

HEIGHT refers to something measured vertically whether high or low. a wall two meters in height

ALTITUDE and ELEVATION apply to height as measured by angular measurement or atmospheric pressure;

ALTITUDE is preferable when referring to vertical distance above the surface of the earth or above sea level;

ELEVATION is used especially in reference to vertical height on land. fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters Denver is a city with a high elevation

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

Usage Note:

Although some people pronounce height with a final (th) by analogy with length and width

(and, in fact, the word was originally pronouncedand written with a th),

the standard pronunciation in Modern English is (hīt).

Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary

“Width” has a TH at the end, so why doesn’t“height"?

In fact it used to, but the standard pronunciation today ends in a plain “T” sound.

People who use the obsolete form misspell itas well, so pronunciation is no guide.

By the way, this is one of those pesky exceptions to the rule,

"I before E except after C,"

but the vowels are seldom switched,

perhaps because we see it printed on so many formsalong with “age” and “weight."

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

The Height of Mispronunciation—Or Not

Why doesn't 'height' end in 'th'?

Do you—or does anyone you know—pronounce height like it's got a th on the end?

It's OK, we won't judge.

Benjamin Franklin probably did too:

Which suggests that something changed in the century between the time of the Founding Fathers and Dickens's era. Franklin and Washington were inarguably men who knew their way around the English language, but within less than a century, Dickens was using heighth to show dialect (and an unflattering one at that).

We might think that this had to do with the ocean between them, except that American humorist Marietta Holley did the same thing a few years later:

But perhaps the question we should be asking is:

why shouldn't height end in th?

Other measurement words do: width, breadth, length.

As we've seen already, there was in fact a timewhen height too followed that pattern. The spellings heighth and highth competed in popularity in standard English with height into the 18th century.

It turns out that the final t form arosein northern dialects of Middle English

at a time when the gh sound in heighth was still pronounced,

and pronounced with a sound no longer found in typical English dialects:

it had the sound of \ḵ\, which is found at the end of the German name Bach and in the Scots word loch.

But because few other English words ended inthe consonant cluster \ḵth\, the second sound lost its fricative quality and became a simple \t\, remaining so even after the \ḵ\ sound had been lost. In dialects of southern England the cluster was preserved until the \ḵ\ sound was lost, but by the 19th century heighth, despite its correspondence to the other nouns of dimension, had been largely ousted by height, at least in non-dialect published works.

What does this mean for you, o person who says height as though it's spelled heighth? Merely that you're a little behind the times, and perhaps a stickler for consistency. We still won't judge you. But since your fellow 21st century English speakers likely will,

we recommend you pronounce height with a \t\ at the end instead.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

Usage Note:

Although some people pronounce height with a final (th)

by analogy with length and width (and,

in fact, the word was originally pronounced and written with a th),

the standard pronunciation in Modern English is (hīt).

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary

syn: height, altitude, elevation

refer to distance above a level.

height denotes extent upward (as from foot to head) as well as any measurable distance above a given level:

The tree grew to a height of ten feet. They looked down from a great height.

altitude usu. refers to the distance, determined by instruments, above a given level, commonly mean sea level:

The airplane flew at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

elevation implies a distance to which something has been raised or uplifted above a level:

a hill's elevation above the surrounding country.