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Re: Prolific Upcoming Weekend!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:46:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
> Tim Courtney wrote:
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> > In lugnet.trains.org, John Neal writes:
> > > This could be a historic weekend for number of LTC showing at one time!
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> > *an* historic...
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> How official is this? I know some people pronounce historic with a soft
> or almost non-existent h making "an" the appropriate article. However, I
> pronounce history with a hard h,
Ahem-- that's "an hard h."
Dave!
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) However, happenstance hopes he would see how hard it would be, that historic with an hard h is hardly 'old hat'. I mean, get a cockney accent on going and it's " 'istoric"--no h to be found at all. Dave K (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Prolific Upcoming Weekend!
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| (...) How official is this? I know some people pronounce historic with a soft or almost non-existent h making "an" the appropriate article. However, I pronounce history with a hard h, making the appropriate article "a" (or at least it sounds awkward (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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