# I might feel no slight delight if I heard "height" pronounced right.

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-might-feel-no-slight-delight-if-i-heard-height-pronounced-right/379447/25 "2006-11-07T21:16:52Z")

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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:

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> 1398 TREVISA Barth. De P.R. XVII. xviii. (1495) 613 A shrub that neuer growyth passynge the heyeth and quantyte of two cubytes.
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> 1667 MILTON P.L. VIII. 413 To attaine The highth and depth of thy Eternal wayes.

So it’s archaic at worst.

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