Timeline for 'WADE' in water - how deep can you wade? ankle-, knee-, waist, neck-deep?
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| Oct 5, 2023 at 3:02 | comment | added | BigMistake | My 2 cents as an American: it makes sense up to "chest," but any more than that I'd think twice. | |
| Oct 4, 2023 at 11:20 | vote | accept | Antipups Z | ||
| Oct 3, 2023 at 21:11 | answer | added | gotube♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 21:03 | comment | added | gotube♦ | I have removed the sentence requesting opinion. Without it, I think it stands as a question about the meaning(s) of the verb "wade". | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 21:01 | history | edited | gotube♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed the request for opinions
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| Oct 3, 2023 at 20:33 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | You can easily find occurrences of 'waded up to his neck' by Googling. Often news stories about accidents or rescues. Any deeper and one would drown. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 20:28 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 20:06 | comment | added | Peter Jennings | It also depends on what equipment you are using. in walking boots you could wade through 1 or 2 inches of water, in wellington boots 6-9 inches in special boots/trousers called "waders" you could get up to thigh high in some designs and chest high in others. Then, if you didn't mind getting wet, you could wade through anything where you could keep your feet on the ground and your face above the surface. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 19:59 | comment | added | Friendly Racoon | I would agree with @PaulTanenbaum here that this is an opinion question more than a language one. Each native speaker might have a different opinion of this, and it's usage in English is going to reflect that. If you have a question that relates more directly to the language and could have a correct answer, you could edit your question to focus on that. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 19:54 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | Requests for opinions are frowned on here in ELL. And what research have you done? Merriam-Webster defines the intransitive wade as “to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air.” | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 19:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 3, 2023 at 18:24 | history | asked | Antipups Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |