"A historic" or "An historic"?
"A historic" or "An historic"?
Which is it and why?
I think tense may play a role as to which is preferable. The local idiom would seem to be:
"It was an historic day."
"It is a historic day."
"It will be a historic day."
But I do notice that I will just use "an" when speaking. I guess that sounding out a strong "a" sound is more effort than I'm willing to put out.
"It was an historic day."
"It is a historic day."
"It will be a historic day."
But I do notice that I will just use "an" when speaking. I guess that sounding out a strong "a" sound is more effort than I'm willing to put out.
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An interesting link.Blaster wrote:An Hero?
Found this there ... strangely suitable to the title they used:
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An historic is correct. I think this is what I use too, but not sure since it's not a phrase I use regularly.
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Perhaps he's writing a paper for a class? Profs can be fantastic douchebags when it comes to insignificant rules like this. They like to take away points whenever they can. It makes them feel good about themselves.Treadshot A1 wrote:Can i just make a point? Who the hell would care which way you said it anyways?
I voted "an historic" since that's how I hear it said/used for the most part.
EDIT: According to this site I'm wrong: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/anhistoric.html It also looks like they use "a historic," but "an historical" in terms of results that came up with google.
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I don't know why they have to be like that. I hated who my English teacher went over every little rule on our paper. I barly passed that class.RID Scourge wrote:Perhaps he's writing a paper for a class? Profs can be fantastic douchebags when it comes to insignificant rules like this. They like to take away points whenever they can. It makes them feel good about themselves.
I voted the last one. Going by grammer, a historic is correct. But I have meet some who say it goes one way or the other. I don't care either way.
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**** yes. On my English 101 final, my teacher took away a point for each contraction you use. Sad thing is, this rule never existed ANYWHERE during class, despite her insistence, and if it was my final grade would be a lot lower. My paper that would have been a clear 98/100 (Forgot to put the date on the paper) was struck down to a 79/100 due to that.RID Scourge wrote:Perhaps he's writing a paper for a class? Profs can be fantastic douchebags when it comes to insignificant rules like this. They like to take away points whenever they can. It makes them feel good about themselves.
Clearly the teacher's fault. Lousy teachers trying to teach lousy basic skills.wolfbolt86 wrote:I don't know why they have to be like that. I hated who my English teacher went over every little rule on our paper. I barly passed that class.
I voted the last one. Going by grammer, a historic is correct. But I have meet some who say it goes one way or the other. I don't care either way.
Plus the "who"<-->"how".
Please tell me all that was deliberate.
Please tell me all that was deliberate.
Most marking schemes would -- essays are usually expected to not be in conversational style. On the other hand someone should've pointed out the concept of register (i.e. formal versus informal) years before whenever the exam was, unless it was in kindergarten." wrote:On my English 101 final, my teacher took away a point for each contraction you use[d].