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Subject:Re: Question for the All Knowing From:Jay Mead <jlmead -at- OURAY -dot- CUDENVER -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 8 May 1997 09:50:37 -0600
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Marika Chalupa wrote:
> Is it
>
> a history
> or
>
> an history?
"a history" and "an historical [event, e.g.]" per an interesting
("an hinteresting"?) article on the back page of the Atlantic a couple of
months back--the difference being the stress on the first or second
syllable. The Atlantic article pointed out that "an history" is used, but
only by the most pretentious among us...
Jay Mead
Galileo International
jay -dot- mead -at- den -dot- galileo -dot- com
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