Re: Question for the All Knowing

Subject: Re: Question for the All Knowing
From: Buck & Tilly Buchanan <writer -at- DHC -dot- NET>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 04:26:10 -0500

> Is it
>
> a history
> or
>
> an history?

The determination is from the sound of the first letter, not whether it
is a vowel.

In Liverpool it might be 'istory, but in the U.S. it's History and
clearly not a vowel sound.

Buck Buchanan
writer -at- dhc -dot- net
Arlington, TX

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