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[Paul Johnston]

And again, we have a conservative pronunciation in the South and BE--OE heahTu.  (Where T = thorn, pronounced theta in this case.

Paul Johnston
On Sep 2, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>> the pronunciation of the word with a "theta" ending is current--at least in dialects of Southern American English.
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> Including BE, 4sho! In my youth, I used to have a problem with the
> very common misspelling, _height_, instead of the correct _heigth_.
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> No, wait. It was the other way around.
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