Timeline for Pluralization rules with prepositional phrases
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| Jan 14, 2018 at 5:05 | comment | added | Jelila | Oh yeah I mean @EdwinAshworth I despair sometimes of wiki, in its helpful but sometimes obtuse viewpoints. While loving it too! And of online dictionaries in general. Collins is kind of ok but a bit populist. I have no idea what that Cambridge dictionary online is but find it hard to believe it has anything to do with Cambridge. Sometimes the Urban Dictionary is good cos it has new meanings. And real dictionaries online - aren't they all subscribe or pay per view? I so miss my thick Oxford concise with its lovely skinny onion paper. tried to buy new one but couldn't find when in London last. | |
| Jan 14, 2018 at 4:58 | comment | added | Jelila | Oh yeah I mean @EdwinAshworth I despair sometimes of wiki, online dictionaries in general. Collins is knd o | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 15:47 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The example they have to resort to is 'If the man is there, or ia heidth, it is 'certain you have done all that can be hy writing) and no doubt tlie Bbhop of Gloucester, who proniiaed toDr.'. Wordnik and UD are not often well received on ELU. Perhaps you can see why. Other, respected, online dictionaries (Collins, M-W, Oxford Dictionaries Online ...) fail to list 'heidth', which argues quite strongly that it is non-standard. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 1:16 | comment | added | Jelila | Depending on what they want to say - to my ears if they say 'two buildings of differing heighths' it sounds more natural and correct than height or heights. If you scroll down on this page you'll see that in recent years 320 people have looked it up. wordnik.com/words/heidth | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 0:59 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Can you find a dictionary with an editorial board, or a respectable source (of within the last 50 years), giving 'heidth' instead of 'height'? / Note the two variants OP actually asks about in their question: 'heights' or 'height'. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 0:54 | comment | added | Jelila | It's not obsolete, it is in common use. It depends on the context of what is being said - are the buildings the topic of interest, or the heidth itself. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 0:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Apart from introducing a non-standard / obsolescent variant, this does not answer the question. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 0:46 | history | answered | Jelila | CC BY-SA 3.0 |