There's No Fucking "H"!

August 18, 2008 11:08 PM

urprisingly, this post has nothing to do with people mispronouncing my name. Instead, it has something to do with the Olympics.

I was watching the trampoline finals tonight and, between thinking "How the fuck is this an Olympic sport?" and "I don't understand how this is a sport," I couldn't help but notice that one of the commentators kept saying that the competitors were getting a lot of "heighth." What the fuck is heighth? Is it like height but pronounced by an idiot?

People adding an extra H to the word height has bothered me ever since middle school where a friend of mine explained that it made sense to pronounce it heighth since the other words for dimmension--length and width--end in the "th" sound. That makes sense, I suppose. Except that there's no fucking H at the end of the word!. That's like saying that since the words "spoon" and "fork" don't have silent letters, we should pronounce the K in "knife."

So check it out: if you're pronouncing it "heighth," you're an idiot and I hate you.

3 Comments

morenonesense said:

you are such an idiot.

August 19, 2008 9:43 PM

bob said:

Perhaps you should look in a dictionary. Just because people do things differently than you do doesn't make them idiots.

August 20, 2008 7:00 PM

tRJ said:

Bob: People pronouncing a word in a way that hasn't been common since the 15th century isn't "different," it's idiotic.

August 22, 2008 11:04 AM

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