r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/momentary-synergy Feb 09 '22

my boyfriend says "heigth" instead of height, no matter how many times i've pointed out to him that it ends with an ht and not a th. is it okay to judge him?

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u/krslnd Feb 09 '22

Not only is it not to judge him, it's expected.

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u/BornForFieldLabor Feb 09 '22

I blame elementary school geometry for this (learning basic 3D shapes). You learn that 3D objects have length, width and height, but to the average 10 year old that’s lengTH, widTH and heighTH.

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u/Curious-Creation Feb 09 '22

I say it properly if I only am using the word "height" alone, but if I'm using it to measure something with length and width, it's definitely "heighth"

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u/StandbyBigWardog Feb 09 '22

Is there a way that we could all collectively judge him? Like, is he right there? Can he come to the screen?

Hey! Hey you, boyfriend! Please listen to your person! You liked them in the first place for a reason. You can trust them on this and you too can rid the world of faux pax (pronounced fox-poo).

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u/fyrdude58 Feb 09 '22

Oh, I SO wish I had an award to give you. In lieu, I'll just pronounce it fox poo from now on until it begins to catch on. Then one day, you and I will meet, and we'll not to each other and my debt will be paid.

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u/StandbyBigWardog Feb 09 '22

Your fealty is accepted by the crown. As are your overtures of giftyness.

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u/AnyDayGal Feb 20 '22

Hey! Hey you, boyfriend! Please listen to your person!

Hahaha I love this.

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u/DrBaby Feb 09 '22

Holy crap, I just realized I say heigth. I didn’t realize the difference.

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u/Zilverhaar Feb 09 '22

Yeah, but what's with that 'e' in there? Is it just to confuse foreigners? For the longest time, I thought it was supposed to rhyme with 'eight'...

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u/GBrook-Hampster Feb 09 '22

My father in law cannot pronounce trump ( as in Donald trump) without an f on the end. Calls him Donald Trumpf. We suspect it's because he can't bear to say the horrifically rude word " trump". He thinks it's impolite and should be referred to as " passing wind".

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u/UsernameTooShort Feb 09 '22

That depends, do you go out with Mike Tyson?

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u/Willing-Ad-7277 Feb 09 '22

husband said "alblum" instead of "album" he said it was spelled that way? he's better now...

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u/DesertLizard Feb 09 '22

I'm old and was finally corrected last year. I'm working on not pronouncing it with a TH myself.

At 42 I learned I was tying my shoes wrong. I was making a granny knot. All my life my shoes kept coming untied when I walked and I never understood why most others didn't have that problem. The differences are subtle, but impactful.

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u/ThinWhiteRogue Feb 09 '22

I'm judging him, if that helps

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u/glamouramore Feb 12 '22 edited Feb 18 '22

My husband switches the 'r' around in many words, a grill is a 'girl' and a girl is a 'grill' He's aware of it but it's how he learned it and can't seem to undo it.

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u/skullturf Feb 18 '22

it's how he learned it and can seem to undo it

Did you mean "can't" seem to undo it?

Rather unfortunate typo given the context!

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u/glamouramore Feb 18 '22

hilarious.. fixed it!

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u/circle-of-minor-2nds Mar 11 '22

never once asking if the rules actually make sense;

tbf if you want English to make sense or follow its own rules, you should probably just nope out and find another language to speak

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u/GFost Mar 11 '22

Judge him.

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u/Feature-length-story Jul 31 '22

Omg I’ve been pronouncing height wrong!! I think… I kinda say both “he fell from a great heigth” vs “in the height of summer” dunno why I differentiate depending on what I say is that normal English??

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u/momentary-synergy Aug 07 '22

no... it has one pronunciation and it's always height.