Enunciation

[peasea]

Apparently I made a 'big call' in the stabbed-tagger thread earlier. I think that's like a 'big ask', but done after the fact.

I made a big call once, to a porn site in the UK, cost me ninety bucks. I managed to cover it so the rhubarb didn't hit the sink. It was a close one coz we had custard to go.

[slofox]

"big call...." Once, on the first day back at school after the summer holidays a kid was harassing some of my class and without thinking I turned to him and said "Fuck off willya!..." Fortunately this was in the olden days and I didn't get fired nor did the kid need therapy cozza the big bad teacher giving him grief...He just raced around the playground yelling at the top of his voice to all his mates...."HEY!! MT T. JUST TOLD ME TO FUCK OFF!!!" Coulda strangled the little ba...errrr...darling...

[Beemer]

Perhaps she was more literate than her daughter? Heighth is a perfectly valid and legitimate word.

Used by Dickens eg Great Expectations: “Pip, I wish you ever well and ever prospering to a greater and a greater heighth"

And the Bible

Romans 8:38-39
“For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heighth, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”.

And Shakespeare Sonnet 116

"Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken."

They seem quite sufficient authority for me. And I guess, your mother.

Wow, how amazing - but if the word is no longer in any of the dictionaries I own (and trust me, I have many!), then it doesn't count!

My mother was an atheist so would never have read the bible, and everyone knows Dickens was a poncy writer whose characters never spoke proper anyway!