jlegler.com » grammar http://jlegler.com simple things that interest me Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:54:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 An historic update for idiots http://jlegler.com/archives/113 http://jlegler.com/archives/113#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:51:20 +0000 jlegler http://jlegler.com/?p=113 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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