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More or less the rule is "an" before vowels or voiceless H. eg. An apple. A banana. An hour. A history. Quite often you see people writing "an historic ac
by richrichardsson 2y ago
More or less the rule is "an" before vowels or voiceless H.
eg.
An apple.
A banana.
An hour.
A history.
Quite often you see people writing "an historic achievement", but that's incorrect because the H is voiced in historic.
Where it gets a bit vague is stuff like "SQL statement", because some people would say it like "Sequel statement", others will say it like "Ess-Queue-Ell statement".
- danielheath 2y ago> Quite often you see people writing "an historic achievement", but that's incorrect because the H is voiced in historic. Many accents drop their leading 'H' sounds.
- richrichardsson 2y agoI wish I could care less about such things, but sometimes linguistic descriptivism is the wrong path to take. The H should be voiced. Just because some people are too lazy to speak their own language correctly doesn't make it correct, in my worthless opinion.