An historic update for idiots

Okay everyone who says ‘an historic’, you’re driving me nuts.  You say ‘an’ before a vowel or a vowel sound.  You say ‘a’ before a consonant or consonant sound.  H is a consonant and in the word historic makes a consonant sound; therefore, the event you’re talking about is a historic event, not an historic one.  If the word starts with an H and has a vowel sound, then you can say an.  Here is an example of each:

Barack Obama being elected president was a historic event.

I hope he is an honest man.

Got it?  Now knock off the “an historic” bullshit, you sound like an idiot.

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Geeky musician born and raised in Wyoming and currently living in Portland OR.
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3 Responses to An historic update for idiots

  1. j. brooks says:

    people who don’t pronounce the H in History are on the road to omitting to H in Human.

    “it’s yooman nature…”

    i consider “an istoric” a gateway drug.

    it’s the same incorrect subliminal pretentious nincompoopery that leads everyone on the planet to use “further” instead of “farther.”

    i’m with you, but, my friend, we fight a war we cannot win.

  2. Jason Legler says:

    Hrm, I don’t know if I agree about further and farther. I always use farther when talking about distance and use further as a different form of additional.

    We don’t have much farther to go.

    This argument will require further discussion.

  3. ryan says:

    “Yooman” and “an historic” are in the same category as”greazy” or “greasy”.

    Nincompoopery!

    Maybe were just being antagonistical.
    Its Assholery!

    Ryan

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