Grammatical mistake in sentence on image editor screen

[simrandeep]

There is a grammatical mistake in the following sentence on the image editor screen - "The aspect ratio is the relationship between the width and height." Here it must either be "The aspect ratio is the relationship between width and height." or "The aspect ratio is the relationship between the width and the height." Either 'the' should be removed from width or it must be added before height as well.

[johnbillion]

Welcome @simrandeep! Thanks for the ticket and the patch.

[SergeyBiryukov]

The existing string appears to be more commonly used than the proposed one:

• ​the relationship between the width and height: 336,000 results
• ​the relationship between width and height: 32,200 results

[ayeshrajans]

This is super difficult to google due to "the" being a word often ignored in English searches. I'm not a native English speaker, and English is my second language. What we have sounds simple and correct to me.

​https://ell.stackexchange.com/q/13307/1468 - This Q&A also suggests that it's OK to omit the repetitive "the" as long as it's in same context.

[johnbillion]

Thanks for opening this @simrandeep but I'll close this off as it doesn't appear to be incorrect, and if it is it's still understandable. Changing it would cause extra work for translators.

Cheers!

[simrandeep]

No problem @johnbillion :) It was my duty to inform as I found it wrong but if you think it's correct then it's totally fine to close it.