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Originally posted by Avatar:
But since you are doing a degree on this, you hardly need us mouthing about it 
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LOL I'm not doing a degree in grammar, dear
. Psychology. Sadly though I have to use English to express myself [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Yes, Seraph, that's what I mean. An historic is fine when you pronounce it istoric, but it's becoming really common to say an historic when you pronounce the h which seems inconsistent.
Well Bungleau, that's probably good advice for some situations but I'm writing a report and reporting what the various variables contributed to predicting the criterion. That's the clearest way of expressing it.
Like I said, it doesn't really matter at all. It was just bugging me that both sounded right, and like dear Alex said, I'm a pedant