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Old 04-16-2003, 02:44 PM   #3
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
My favorite thing about this article is that the author says "a historic." "An historic" annoys the pee-water out of me.
It's a quirk of the language. Do we say "a honest mistake"? But then we don't say "an helpful person" or "an heretic" do we?

How about 'Herb'. You Yanks leave off the 'H'. Do you then say "an 'erbal remedy" or "a Herbal remedy" like the rest of Anglica? (except for dem East Lon'on folks)
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