Tham khảo tài liệu 'phân biệt nghĩa của từ 9', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | heighth HEIGHTH HEIGHT Width has a TH at the end so why doesn t height In fact it used to but the standard pronunciation today ends in a plain T sound. People who use the obsolete form misspell it as well so pronunciation is no guide. By the way this is one of those pesky exceptions to the rule I before E except after C but the vowels are seldom switched perhaps because we see it printed on so many forms along with age and weight. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 38 16 help the problem HELP THE PROBLEM HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEM People say they want to help the problem of poverty when what they really mean is that they want to help solve the problem of poverty. Poverty flourishes without any extra help thank you. I guess I know what a suicide help line is but I d rather it were a suicide prevention help line. I suppose it s too late to ask people to rename alcoholism support groups as sobriety support groups but it s a shoddy use of language. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 38 16 hero protagonist HERO PROTAGONIST In ordinary usage hero has two meanings leading character in a story and brave admirable person. In simple tales the two meanings may work together but in modern literature and film the leading character or protagonist a technical term common in literary criticism may behave in a very unheroic fashion. Students who express shock that the hero of a play or novel behaves despicably reveal their inexperience. In literature classes avoid the word unless you mean to stress a character s heroic qualities. However if you are discussing the main character in a traditional opera where values are often simple you may get by with referring to the male lead as the hero but is Don Giovanni really a hero See also heroin heroine. List of errors file C Temp livres commonerrors errors 09 2005 15 38 .
