# How do you pronounce height?

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**Created:** [April 6, 2024, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-height/999908 "2024-04-06T01:13:39Z")\
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Are you going to argue with John Milton and the OED?

> [@I might feel no slight delight if I heard "height" pronounced right.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-feel-no-slight-delight-if-i-heard-height-pronounced-right/379447/25):
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> Interesting that “heighth” is current usage in Ireland. The second variant of “height” that OED lists is actually “highth”. Some early usages: So it’s archaic at worst.

But we have an explosion of _new_ words anyway, so why not something as trivial as “heighth”?

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