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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?
The earliest attestation of those noun variants is for 'jipper', in 1886, when it appears in William Henry Long's A dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect: Jipper. Juice, or syrup of anything, as of …
Instead of calling out " Beaver " whenever we spy a hapless wight with whiskers, let us shout "scaler" whenever we detect one of this host of miscreants. What fun it would be to ride our trams then! This …
And there's the viral video by Shaun Bloodworth, which is said to have been responsible for saving Ernest Wight from closure. In another ten-year-old video the term is used yet again but by a …
The distinction between abbreviations (e.g. I.o.W = Isle of Wight) and contractions (e.g. Dr = Doctor, where the first and last letters are retained) is a useful one, but has been eroded in the …
Another learned wight, determined not to be left behind hand, very consequentially gave the three R's, that is, said he, ' Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic. And similarly, in yet another rendition of …
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at the same time, it has particular associations, that 'island' does not, with being poetic or flowery or in fixed phrases or very particular islands ('Isle of Wight'). So you would be totally …
0 E E ('Doc') Smith did no better than to press the term wight back into service: wight (plural wights) (archaic): A living creature, especially a human being. [Wiktionary] OED is not so …
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.
And there's the viral video by Shaun Bloodworth, which is said to have been responsible for saving Ernest Wight from closure. In another ten-year-old video the term is used yet again but by a different filmmaker: “Cliff works as a master scissors putter-togetherer.
The distinction between abbreviations (e.g. I.o.W = Isle of Wight) and contractions (e.g. Dr = Doctor, where the first and last letters are retained) is a useful one, but has been eroded in the 20c. by a widespread tendency to abandon the use of full points altogether for both types.
The earliest attestation of those noun variants is for 'jipper', in 1886, when it appears in William Henry Long's A dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect: Jipper. Juice, or syrup of anything, as of a pudding or pie. "Mind what thee bist dooen wi' the skimmer, thee'st lat all the jipper out of the pudden."
Another learned wight, determined not to be left behind hand, very consequentially gave the three R's, that is, said he, ' Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic. And similarly, in yet another rendition of the anecdote in The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Politics, etc. (): Anecdotes by Philarchon.
According to Wright, the verb was common across Ireland, Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucester-shire, Wales, the West Country, and the Isle of Wight. Transferred to a vertical plane, it means ’to bounce’, as in the description of the first football play in Cardiff (1873–4):
Instead of calling out " Beaver " whenever we spy a hapless wight with whiskers, let us shout "scaler" whenever we detect one of this host of miscreants. What fun it would be to ride our trams then! This is the same year that the limerick about "a young lady named Eva" began to appear in limerick collections.
It is a matter of convention. The same goes for many other geologic or hydrologic features: the Leyte Gulf but the Gulf of Mexico, Loch Lomond but Alemoor Loch, the Isle of Wight but Portsea Island. That said, Nnn River is the far more prevalent form in the U.S.; it would be quite rare to hear of the River Missouri or the River Columbia in prose.
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at the same time, it has particular associations, that 'island' does not, with being poetic or flowery or in fixed phrases or very particular islands ('Isle of Wight'). So you would be totally understood if you used it instead of island, it is technically correct, but it would sound slightly fancy, like you're trying to be poetic.