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who is 'they'?
by jameshart 6y ago
who is 'they'?
- analog31 6y agoWell... historians, mostly.
- IshKebab 6y agoPeople who erroneously say "an historic" and pronounce the h.
- jameshart 6y agoThat’s not an error. It can be an affectation, but in my native southern English middle class somewhat Radio 4 accent it’s perfectly reasonable to pronounce ‘an historic’ basically the same as ‘unhistoric’ - or equally to pronounce ‘a historic’ with a stressed a, basically the same as ‘ahistoric’. Pronouncing it with an unstressed schwa for ‘a’ then an unstressed ‘his’ sounds awkward to my ear. And I would never drop the ‘h’. That would sound common :)