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I is a vowel so your rule about sound doesn’t apply here. It’s also not a rule I’ve ever heard, in school we’re taught that only vowels get a before them
by edgyquant 4y ago
I is a vowel so your rule about sound doesn’t apply here. It’s also not a rule I’ve ever heard, in school we’re taught that only vowels get a before them
- alar44 4y ago[dead]
- frogulis 4y ago> in school we’re taught that only vowels get a before them That's the opposite of how it works (as you demonstrated in your own comment, "not a rule...") The comment you responded to was correct, or at least very reasonable, and I'm really not sure which part you disagree with.
- fragmede 4y agohttps://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/vowel-sounds-when-use-a-and-an https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/vowel-sounds-... "Vowel Sounds"
- jmpman 4y agoThank you for posting this. I’m always surprised when people claim the rule is based upon the immediate letter instead of the pronunciation of the first syllable. Makes me wonder if the model was trained incorrectly.
- caf 4y agoThe word is "historic" either way, the commenter was using " 'istoric " as a way of indicating a particular pronunciation. There's a few words in English that begin with the letter h but not with the consonant sound /h/ (depending on your accent!), mostly because they're French in origin: historic is one, and there's also hour, heir, honour. "It is an honour to be here"
- Tao3300 4y agoYeah, where I'm from, since historic has the emphasis on STOR and not HI (as in history), the h is much softer, so it's pretty normal to say "an historic event" but also "a history of the world". It's silly to act like there's a right or wrong. Dialects and accents are a special thing. Just be consistent.