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An Hallucinated Man: The battles over T. S. Eliot’s legacy
- albert_e 4y agoNoob question: "An" hallucinated? Not "A" hallucinated? Is it pronounced with a vowel sound (silent H like in ... an hour)?
- dbxkcichhdfufu 4y agoShould just be a "The".
- mjan22640 4y agoThe H is silent only in specific dialects.
- moomin 4y agoOk, I can’t find a good reference for this but… England underwent a fad in Georgian times for applying French language rules to English. I say “fad” but some of these differences are still present today, e.g the pronunciation of “futile” and “fertile”. And this applies to “h”. For pretty much the whole of the Victorian period “an hallucinated” was considered correct. I know people who still consider it correct, modern style guides be damned. Eliot, ever the English traditionalist cosplayer, would have treated h as a vowel for these purposes.
- ykonstant 4y ago>Eliot, ever the English traditionalist cosplayer, I will never not be amused by this description.