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Those two 'g's' need to be inserted into 'heiht' and 'weiht' like
so: 'height','weight'.
I notice your name in your email addy is 'lysdexia'. Are you
dyslexic?
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singularity.
COOSN-174-07-82116: alt.astronomy's favourite poster (from a survey taken
of the saucerhead high command).
Depends on the context. Is 'heiht' an English word, an arbitrary token, a representation of a mathematical formula? Could be all three. I'll have to reread Beowulf; turns out my copy, however, has been translated into the modern English form.
It turns out it's also the name of a company somewhere in the Middle East, probably Saudi Arabia, specializing in electrical items.
"Weiht" is the name of a viewing profile on Channel NewsAsia. I'm getting no clearer indications.
In both cases Google suggested the modern English words.
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height O.E. hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit," from root of heah "high" + -itha Gmc. abstract noun suffix (cf. O.N. hæð, O.H.G. hohida, Goth. hauhiþa "height"). The modern pronunciation with -t not established till 18c., and heighth is still colloquial.
weight O.E. gewiht, from P.Gmc. *(ga)wekhtiz, *(ga)wekhtjan (cf. O.N. vætt, O.Fris. wicht, M.Du. gewicht, Ger. Gewicht), from *weg- (see weigh). The verb meaning "to load with weight" is attested from 1747; sense in statistics is recorded from 1901. To lose weight "get thinner" is recorded from 1961. Weight Watcher as a trademark name dates from 1960. To pull one's weight (1921) is from rowing. Weighty "important, serious, grave" is from 1489.
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Q: "Why is my computer doing that?"
A: "Don't do that and you'll be fine."
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You post as though you think you're talking.
You're not, and your efforts to punctuate text in a way that makes
you think the text will "sound right" when it's read do nothing but
confuse your audience and cause antagonism.
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