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6 Minute English From BBCLearningEnglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Neil.
And I'm Catherine.
Catherine, are you tall enough?
Tall enough for what?
Tall enough to be happy with your height.
Oh, well, yes, I'm alright with my height.
I can't do a thing about it anyway, so how about you?
Well, the same, really.
I wouldn't mind being a slightly taller, I suppose.
Which is appropriate, as today's topic is about heightism.
Heightism.
Now, you may not have heard of heightism before,
but it's like other isms, like racism, sexism, ageism,
and other isms that highlight a particular kind of discrimination or unequal treatment that people experience.
But before we find out more about this topic,
our quiz question for today.
The tallest person ever proven to live was Robert Wardlow from the USA.
But how tall was he?