- Wight and Wiht is white? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Wight is pronounced "white" Wight can be found as "wiht" I have heard people pronounce this as "wit" Is this mispronounced or for example dutch white = WIT?
- to weigh or to weight - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I can see both weigh and weight being applicable here, but unless you tell us what you're trying to say in other words, it is impossible for us to know which meaning is intended: to weigh (to determine how heavy or important something is) or to weight (to assign a level of heaviness or importance to something)
- Origin of the phrase Thats mighty white of you. . .
Are you looking for the origins of that particular phrase only, or of the use of 'white' to signify 'honorable and or pure, etc'?
- Correct usage of lbs. as in pounds of weight
Assuming it's not casual usage, I'd recommend "All items over five pounds are excluded," instead Most style guided recommend spelling out numbers of ten or less, and in such a case I'd spell out the unit, too
- Put more weight on something - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Idiomatically, most people prefer to (metaphorically) give more weight to [some contributory factor] rather than put more weight on it But both versions are perfectly natural, and semantically they're equivalent (attach greater importance to some factor) Note that both "conscious agents" (people) and "abstract concepts" such as data, arguments, lines of reasoning can give or put weight on
- What is a single word which can properly describe age, height, weight . . .
I am completing a final assignment for a statistics course, and need a single word to describe age, height, weight and BMI (body mass index) The best I've been able to come up with so far are ph
- Isle vs. Island - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In modern everyday use 'Isle' tends to be included in the name by which the place is known, such as the ones you mention plus the Isle of Skye, Isle of Mull, Isle of Wight etc
- Height and Weight - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used He was a 6-foot 5-inch man (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens ) She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce baby (Not
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