that's what i thought. But having read it on a national news channel website, it threw me off...
thanks for the clarifications!
grammatical question that's been bugging me.
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that's what i thought. But having read it on a national news channel website, it threw me off...
thanks for the clarifications!
Dangerdoll
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Funny that you ask this question I asked my English Professor the same thing today and he said the same thing that opicana, i think, said. Either is acceptable as well as gramattically correct.
When I was a child in England (we were stationed at Lakenheath) I was fortunate to attend English schools. I remember the language aspects of my learning being different (and more advanced) that American education. Spelling, and pronunciation---including "an historical" with the "h" not being pronounced. For what it's worth.
(when we returned to FLA for war college I remember the townie kids making fun of me nonstop due to my acquired vagaries)
Cheech--you know I'm a teacher, and even as an art teacher, I'm big on writing properly.
"Grammar" has 2 "m's".
(when we returned to FLA for war college I remember the townie kids making fun of me nonstop due to my acquired vagaries)
Cheech--you know I'm a teacher, and even as an art teacher, I'm big on writing properly.
"Grammar" has 2 "m's".
im gonna stick to my guns on this one..
it should be "A".
"an" (and any variation) means youre saying it wrong.
one reader there comments and compares it to saying "An honest".. it's a good comparison, i dont know anyone who pronounces it Honest (it's 'onest) but Historic is Historic (not 'istoric).
it should be "A".
"an" (and any variation) means youre saying it wrong.
one reader there comments and compares it to saying "An honest".. it's a good comparison, i dont know anyone who pronounces it Honest (it's 'onest) but Historic is Historic (not 'istoric).
When I was a child in England (we were stationed at Lakenheath) I was fortunate to attend English schools. I remember the language aspects of my learning being different (and more advanced) that American education. Spelling, and pronunciation---including "an historical" with the "h" not being pronounced. For what it's worth.
(when we returned to FLA for war college I remember the townie kids making fun of me nonstop due to my acquired vagaries)
Cheech--you know I'm a teacher, and even as an art teacher, I'm big on writing properly.
"Grammar" has 2 "m's".
lol... shoot. .. OK, well, on the bright side of things, I learned 2 things today
So what you're saying is, that the "proper" way of saying it would actually be "An-istoric" ??
I would have thought the opposite...
:iagree: with J Double R. There is a difference in what is commonly used and what is grammatically correct. A is the grammatically correct usage in this case.
that's what i thought at first too. . . but if you say it in a sentence, it kinda flows off your tongue. an-istoric night... rather than the latter.
(thank god no one's in the office right now or they'd think I was a wacko, saying these same words to myself every couple of seconds)..
HAHAHAH! i can imagine. LOL.
the only way i can get "an-istoric" to roll off my tongue is if i try to imitate what i think Niko sounds like.......
the only way i can get "an-istoric" to roll off my tongue is if i try to imitate what i think Niko sounds like.......
Now, don't take this too seriously, but dropping the apostrophe in "you're" undermines your argument a bit.
Actually, if anything, there is a drift from "an historic" to "a historic". While the H is a consonant, it is nothing more than a voiced aspiration, a very soft consonant indeed. The older you are the more likely you would have been taught that, in the case of a soft "h", as in "historic" or "heuristic" (but not a hard "h", as in "Halibut"), "an" is the preferred article.
Both are correct. "An" is classier.
