Fuck me; I give up: AN historic.
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campylobacterWhilst negotiating my paycheque, I spied amongst the event posters of my financial institution (no less than the eminent Wells Fargo) the announcement "JUNETEENTH: AN HISTORIC EVENT..."
Lest I deprecate of the observance of such a seminal event in my nation's history (the abolition of slavery in the United States of ANerica), I hereby disclaim that I am AN sophisticated speaker of AN sprawling, illimitable, living language and, as such, am fully privileged to substitute grammatically incorrect articles whenever it suits my pretensions or hypocritical yet idiosyncratic, transliterated pronunciations whilst sacrificing clarity.
Thusly: AN history, AN Hispanic, AN hysterical, AN hotel, A honest.
My grammer is pastede on yay!
Lest I deprecate of the observance of such a seminal event in my nation's history (the abolition of slavery in the United States of ANerica), I hereby disclaim that I am AN sophisticated speaker of AN sprawling, illimitable, living language and, as such, am fully privileged to substitute grammatically incorrect articles whenever it suits my pretensions or hypocritical yet idiosyncratic, transliterated pronunciations whilst sacrificing clarity.
Thusly: AN history, AN Hispanic, AN hysterical, AN hotel, A honest.
My grammer is pastede on yay!
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Une historique
Date: 2005-06-13 05:54 pm (UTC)Heck yeah. Us 'Mericuns drop the H when we say "'onest to Gawd" and "sexy 'eiress Paris".
We aspirate the H when we say "the hhhistory book", "them Hhhispanics" and "danged hhhistorically accurate".
So why should we NOT aspirate it when we say "historic"? My mom, who speaks Engrish, is c0nfuz3d.
The only reason I figure that some believe "an historic" is acceptable arises from copying early 20th century British usage when Cockneys and slagging off the Monarchy were hip. Not aspirating H was so bichen, it was included in the old London Times Manual of Style.
Then Fowler and other grammarians started to become more popular, and dropping the H made you sound retar--, uh, French.
Thus I blame Francophones for the confusion, and likewise the entire country of Canada.
Canada is AN HEVOL.